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8 Targets Bombed (Middleton) – 2-3
Swiss Shoot Down American Bomber – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Vivid Film of Daylight Bomb Raid Depicts Daring of Our Air Forces (Crowther) * – 4
Women Appeal for Red Cross Aid – 4
Capital Also Won (Parker) – 5-6
Commander in Chief Meets Crew of the ‘General Ike’ (photo) – 6
Action Flares Up in Eastern Italy – 7
Heroes Honored for Exploits in Italy (photos) – 7
Seesaw Battling in India Continues – 8
Ship Sunk, 9 Fired in Hollandia Blow – 8
Bong Downs 27th Japanese Plane and Becomes U.S. ‘Ace of Aces’ (Kluckhohn) – 9-10
Latest Casualties Reported by Army – 11
Blows Impend in Pacific (Baldwin) – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 13-15
De Gaulle Plans Return to Army (by Harold Callender) – 15
South Won’t Open Polls to Negroes, Maybank Warns (by C.P. Trussell) – 16
Ickes Defend Shift of Loyal Japanese; Calls West Coast Critics ‘Race Mongers’ – 16

* Bosley Crowther makes a rare appearance on the news thread today with his review of the newly released film “The Memphis Belle.” This is the documentary that presumably inspired the 1990 fictionalized movie of the same name. Youtube has the whole 41 ½ minute film. Link below. If you want the full screen version you can get it on DVD from Netflix.

“The Memphis Belle”

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/apr44/14apr44.htm#

Bombay rocked by ship explosion
Friday, April 14, 1944 www.onwar.com

Fort Stikine [photo at link]

In India... The transport ship Fort Stikine, carrying explosives and cotton bales, catches fire and explodes in the Bombay Docks. A total of 27 ships are wrecked in the harbor, about 740 people are killed or missing and 476 servicemen and about 1000 civilians are injured. (In the following six months, some 10,000 troops and civilians remove one million tons of rubble from the area.)

On the Eastern Front... Both the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front and 2nd Ukrainian Front reach the Carpathian foothills — creating a gap between the defenses of German Army Group North Ukraine and Army Group South Ukraine.

In the Soviet Union... General Nikolai F. Vatutin, the former commander of the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front, dies of wounds received in a partisan ambush, by Ukrainian nationalists, on February 29, 1944.

In Burma... British forces break through the Japanese road block at Zubza and the British 161st Brigade at Jotsoma is relieved by attacks of other elements of the 2nd Indian Division.

In Algiers... Free French General Giraud is placed on the retired list.

headline: "Ickes Defend Shift of Loyal Japanese; Calls West Coast Critics ‘Race Mongers’ – 16"

Absolutely classic Democrat double-speak:

First of all what is that word "shift" -- isn't the accurate term "jail"?

But more to the point: here Ickes has 112,000 Japanese-Americans locked up in internment camps, arguably the greatest US "atrocity" of the war, and what does Ickes say to defend himself?
Well, naturally, he accuses others of being racists.

So what is that, genetic? Congenital?
Are some people just born with a compulsion to project their own sins onto others?
I think it's some kind of defect, and it's what makes them incurably Democrat.

;-)