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General Flies Out (Hurd) – 2-3
The War Summarized – 2
Pleased Australia Greets a ‘Fighter’ – 3
MacArthur Party in 2 Planes Soars Over Japanese Fronts (Darnton *) – 4
Chinese Defeat Enemy in Burma (Anderson) – 5-6
China Pins Hopes on Allied Drives (Forman) – 6
Fight for Kharkov is Reported Raging (Brigham) – 6-7
Guthrie’s Resignation (Krock) – 8
MacArthur of Australia (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 10-11

* We are now moving into what seems like an all-M’Arthur-all-the-time format. Byron Darnton will be among the entourage and his reports from The Presence will appear here almost daily.

3 posted on 03/18/2012 5:37:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/mar42/f18mar42.htm

Mountbatten commands Combined Ops
Wednesday, March 18, 1942 www.onwar.com

From London... Admiral Mountbatten is appointed Chief of Combined Operations.

4 posted on 03/18/2012 5:42:24 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))