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By recapture of the island of Borneo the Allies will reap a rich
store of oil and rubber and by the same token, will deprive the
Jape of these vital products. Map above shows principal produc-
tion centers of these and other raw materials. Interior of island
is mostly jungle -covered mountains.
HOME OF B -29'S
Runways and parking spots carved out of coral. on Guam are.
shown in airview of B-29 base on island. Chief of Staff Gen, George
Marshall says that 1000 bombers will be sent from this base against
Japan daily. Big planes are scattered on the field between raids.
HITLESS WONDER
Fifty times at b_A—no hits, no.
runs, no errors. That's record of
disconsolate S/Sgt, Walter J.
Szulborski, above, pictured be-
side a 50 -caliber machine gun
he manned on 50 missions dur-
ing 250 hours over Europe's
toughest targets -- and never
fired a shot. Szulborski, hailing
from Bethlehem Pa., now is at
Langley Field, Va., ready to hop
to the Pacific for another try.
WHIRLWIND FINISH BY OLD MASTER
Premier Churchill wound up the election campaign by speeches in labor districts in London and
the meetings were lively. Here he is seen as he spslte to a crowd of 15,000 from the balcony of the
Red Lion Hotel, High Wycombe, from which Disraeli made his first speech as a parliamentary can-
didate 123 years ago.
, AND ANOTHER JAP IS CAPTURED
Marine rifleman signals his companions to hold their fire as a jap '
soldier emerges from a cave on Okinawa. Leathernecks captured
occupants of hideout after using. smoke grenades as persuaders,
A YANK IS CROWNED
With a colorful ceremony at the Russian. Church in London, Lt.
Calhoun Ancrum, Jr., U. S. -paratroop officer was married to Prin-
cess Xenia, daughter of Prince Andrew of Russia and grand-
daughter of Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the late Czar. The
couple is shown being crowned during the ceremony.
CANADIANS HAVE HUNS CLEAR MINEFIELDS
Under the direction of Royal Canadian Engineers, men of the beaten Wehrmacht remove the lethal
traps they sowed in Holland during the Hun oc;upation of Europe, A German officer (left), ex-
plains a map of a minefield south of Haarlem to Lieut. D. S. Melaysky, Saskatoon, with the Goth
Company, Royal Canadian Engineers. A 'German soldier, right., digs a mine out by hand.
TOKYO -BOUND
Gen. Carl A, Spaatz, above, who
directed the strategic air attack
that destroyed German resources,
will play a similar role in the
Pacific war. He will have overall
command of the 20th Air Force
and the 8th Air Force, now being
redeployed from Europe to the
Pacific. His new command will
be known as the U. S. Strategic
Air Forces in the Pacfic, with
headquarters probably on Guam,
possibly on Okinawa.
EUROPA TO SAIL FOR ALLIES
Once the pride of the German merchant fleet, the 52,000 ton liner
Europa is moved for the first time in five years, into dry dock at
Bremerhaven. The ship, which once held the trans-Atlantic speed
record for passenger vessels, will be repaired and refitted for troop -
carrying activity. American soldiers in the ETO will be transport-
ed to the U.S. aboard the vessel, which is expected to make two
round trips a month.
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WAR'S END FOR ANOTHER JAP
The fighting is all over for thit Jap soldier, pictured safely behind
barbed wire on Guam. The mess kit and canteen aren't photo-
grapher's effects. They bang against wire, giving alarm, in case of
escape attempts.
YOUNGSTERS CAPTURED ON OKINAWA
Two tiny Jap soldiers captured on Okinawa are interviewed in
sign language by Marine lst, Lt. Hart 32. Spiegel, of Topeka,
Kans. Youth at left gave his age as 18, and his companion said he
was 20.
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