Newsmap. Monday, January 17, 1944 : week of January 6 to January 13, 227th week of the war, 109th week of U.S. participation Side: 1 of 2

                                
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China's supply line since the Japs took the Burma Road
has been by air and practically everything used by the
14th Air Forcep cnnves this wav Her-p Chinesep cool ies and

The Red Army in the Ukraine has pushed west
and south to cut two railroads badly needed by
the Germans. A battle is reported raging on the Bug River
for possession of one even more ba dy needed by tIe
enemy. The Soviet's capture of Be:icrhev took fonn the
Germans the rail route connecting their forces in the
Dnepr Bend with 7',Warsaw. Then a Red Army spearhead
advancing into Poland cut the line linking Odessa with
Leningrad. Thus the e'Leney was deprived of direct comruuication
between German divisions in White Russia an.d
in the Ukraine. Sarny, 38 miles west of the prewar PolishSoviet
frontier was the principal city taken on this line. "he
fighting along the Bug is for possession of the railway from
Odessa to Warsaw. Should it be taken by the Red Army,
the enemy army in the bend region would be without rail
communications. Unofficial estimates place the force there
at 60 divisions, or about 750,000 nen. A German force of

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over rock and mud runways to pack them down firmly.
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raided extensively in Northern Italy and made strikes in
the Balkans, including two at Sofia, capital of Bulgaria.
Vigorous air attacks on
Rabaul and other consequential
Jap bases continued. Marines on Cape Gloucester
in New Britain had hard, almost continuous fighting
to expand their holdings and beat back counterattacks.
On Huon Peninsula in New Guinea Australians are
pressing the Japs northwest toward the Americans who
landed at Saidor.

Marshal Tito's Partisans were
driven from Banja Luka when arrival
of a-u Axis tank force from Dalmatia turned the tide
against thenm after they had inflicted heavy casualties on
the enemy. The Germans subsequently were reported
attacking with five columns in Bosnia, and the Partisans
were said to be in a difficult situation.

A  joint American-British  announcement
disclosed perfection of a new jet

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A sacred cow stretched complacently in front of a bazaar
shop in Delhi, India, affords interest and amusement
to recently arrived WAC's with the Southeast Asia ComSot-ot
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mand. Left to right are Capt. Elizabeth Lutze, Sheboygan,
Wis., Lt. Sally Dean, Battle Creek, Mich., and
Flight Officer Margaret Maude, WAAF, London, England.

Against a background of towering mountains, the plane
bearing Gen. Marshall back to the U. S. takes off the

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rain-swept field. Lt. Gen. Krueger watches the ship
leave on the runaway hidden by the growth of tropical grass.
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Officer; Lieut. Gen. Walter Krueger, Commanding
the U. S. Sixth Army; Gen. Marshall and Gen. MacArthur.

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