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Zurich Herald, 1944-10-19, Page 7• PAPER 'BOMB' Out of a country whose dictator is a former paper hanger , ema- nated this -bomb -like compressed paper long-range fuel tank; found on an • airfield captured by the Allies near Brussels, Belgium. An RAF man looks it over. DESTROY DESTROYER Photos above portray one of the most remarkable episodes of the war—a Japanese destroyer sunk by machine gun bullets. In top photo taken from one of four attacking U. S. Navy Hellcats, destroyer inaneuvers in vain as the U. S. planes strafe. Finally their bullets penetrate an ammunition room or hit depth charges, and the Nip ship goes up with a bang, as seen be - w. RETREATING YANK AIRMEN SCORCH EARTH IN CHINA //�//rurunii Shan, hen is Vi SHAH•."•"•' S South China Sea eiU. S. Air Bases Lost to Japan vpm.PHILIPPINE IS. Photos and map above tell the; story of the United Nations' defeat b;• Japs in China that is causing a crisis in Sino- U. S. relations. Under the rentlentless Jap drive .to cut China in half, American air bases,most• of them built by the blood and sweat of hundreds of thousands of Chinese men, women and children, have been abandoned and destroyed by the U. S. Air Forces. Thousands of .tons of supplies, vitally needed ammunition and bombs, tons of precious aviation gasoline, all flown "over the Hump" at great cost in manpower and material, were put to• the torch by General Chennault'g men. Top photo show Chinese' toiling to build one. of the "hand' made" air-' fields. Lower photo shows workers about to plant one of bombs that destroyed runway on Kweilin Field,;•major 14th USAAF base, before it was abandoned: , Map shows airfields given up to Japs, with broad arrows indicating enemy's prime objective—junction of its northern •anr;southern' forces. 'THE BIGGER THEY ARE ...' Seven -foot three-inch Jacob Nacken, right believed to be the tallest soldier in the German army, is pictured talking to a British war correspondent. Nacken, captured by Canadians at Calais, was an exhibit at the world's fair in New York. CANADIAN PROVOST HONOR THEIR DEAD AT DIEPPE In a Canadian Cemetery at Dieppe, these members of Second Canadian Division Provost Corps, (all Dieppe veterans of the Aug. 19, 1942 raid), hold a Memorial Service shortly after the occupation of Dieppe by Canadians two years later. Picture shows Provosts at the graveof their second -in -command killed during the raid in '42. Placing plaque on the grave is Capt. Chris Forbes, Wetaskiwin, Alta. Front row, left to right: Sgt. J. C.Webb,.Athabaska, Alta. Cpl, D. H. Beattie, Toronto, Pte. A. R. Cumisky, Wartyme, Sask.; L'Cppl. J. 'C. O'Connor, Inverness, N.S.; Pte._ J. H. Stoke, Victoria, B.C., and RSM G. W. Oakes, Victoria, B.C. Back row: left to right: Sgt. W. R. gscott, Tilbury; Ont.; Pte. I. B. Thompson, Hythe, Alta,; Pte. V, Harding, Toronto, Sgt, R. P. Ford. Brant, Alta.; Pte. F. A. Catlston, Toronto, 1./Cpl. K. MacMi11an, Montreal, and-L/Cpl, J. I. 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