Members of 5307 Composite Unit (Merrill's Maunders) and local Kachin tribesmen in a group photo of all the nationalities represented in the unit.
L to R, back row:
Sgt. Harold R. Stevenson, Beaver, Pa. - Irish.
Pfc. Stephen Komar, Minnesota. - Ukrainian.
Pvt. George D. Altman, Adamsburg, Pa. - German.
Sgt. Carl F. Hamelic, Cleveland, Ohio. - Dutch.
Pvt. Hose L. Montoya, Las Vegas, Nevada. - Spanish.
Capt. A. E. Quinn, Burma. - Anglo-Burmese.
Capt. D. G. Wilson, Burma. - Anglo-Burmese.
Pfc. Joseph Wuele, Italy. - Italian.
Third row:
Pvt. Kai L. Wong, Los Angeles, California. - Chinese.
S/Sgt. C. N. Dulien, Wisconsin. - Polish.
Cpl. Perry E. Johnson, Somerville, Massachusetts. - Swedish.
Pfc. Louis O. Perdomo, Tampa, Florida. - Cuban.
T/Sgt. Jack Growly, Brooklyn, N.Y. - American.
Second row:
T/Sgt. Russell Hill, Chicago, Ill. - English.
Sgt. Werner Katz, N.Y.C. - Jewish.
Sgt. Miles Elson, Toledo, O. - Swedish.
S/Sgt. Francis Wonsowitz, Gary, Indiana. - Polish.
Sgt. Edward Kucera, Antigo, Wisc. - Bohemian.
Cpl. Bernard Martin, Providence, R.I. - French.
Sgt. Wilbur Smawley, Pullman, Wash. - English.
First row:
Father James Steward. - Irish.
N'Ching Gam. - Kachin.
Li Yaw Tang - Maru.
Pirta Singh. - Gurkha.
Hpakawn Zau Mun. - Atzi.
The Royal Air Force dropped 4,500 tons of bombs on a single raid, a new record. It was Hitler's 55th birthday.
The Luftwaffe sunk the USS Lansdale and the Liberty ship SS Paul Hamilton of Algiers. The attacking planes were Ju 88s which were used as torpedo bombers in this application.
Off of Anzio, the Germans deployed human torpedoes. No serious damages are incurred by any of the Allied ships which are stricken.
Elmer Gedeon, age 27, was killed piloting a B-26 over France. He had been, prior to entering the service, a professional baseball player and was one of only two major league ball players killed during World War Two, the other being Harry O'Neill who was killed as a Marine Corps officer on Iwo Jima.
The British conversation at Kohima was relieved.
The Luftwaffe attempted to raid Hull, but called off the mission.
George Grantham Baink "the father of foreign photographic news", died at age 78 in New York City, which he had heavily photographed.
Many of his photographs appear on this website.
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