Men of the 5th Cavalry Rgt. were landed on Los Negros to back up the previous landings. Momote Airfield was taken.
Lend Lease aid to Turkey was cut off. That it was ever extended is interesting, in that Turkey had not joined the war and in fact was still being courted by both sides.
Maj. Graham Batchelor, Milledgeville, Ga., U.S. Army Infantry Liaison Officer, eating with Chinese officers, March 2, 1944.
The 16th Academy Awards were held at Grauman's Chinese Theater, the first time the awards were held in a large public venue.
Casablanca won Best Picture and Best Director. Other films that were nominated were, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Heaven Can Wait, The Human Comedy, In Which We Serve, The More the Merrier, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Song of Bernadette and Watch on the Rhine. Of those, I've only seen Casablanca, The Ox-Bow Incident and The Song of Bernadette all of which are truly excellent.
Paul Lukas won best actor for Watch on the Rhine. Jennifer Jones won best actress for The Song of Bernadette.
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