 Assault on Formosa, Japan's Great Shipping Center. B-29 Superfortresses in repeated blows slash deeper into Japan's empire. Uttering the relentless Pacific advance, are General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz. And the Navy supports a new landing by MacArthur's 6th United States Army. The United States Navy has now grown to 1,300 fighting ships. Task forces, whole naval divisions, press the attack. And this force of weapons, ships, and men is the familiar amphibious pattern that has been followed hundreds of times in two short years to bring the Allies ever closer to Japan. It personally inspects newly won morotai. Ready and equipped for a fight, the American troops were here unopposed by the enemy. Against the Palau Islands on the road to the Philippines, major landing operations. Here on a beachhead in the Palaus, a heavy price is paid to gain essential ground. It's never taken by American newsreel war correspondent Damien Parer. Accompanying men of the 1st Marine Division into action, Parer's camera records the advance of a patrol under constant fire. Specialties in the expanding battle against Japan, cameraman Parer was killed. The 2nd Infantry Division, American fighting men of the 5th Army in Italy, helping to bring liberation from tyranny to towns and villages in the path of the northward advance. Come men of the fighting 92nd, men who know all the tribulations of the foot soldier. They know the weariness, the loneliness for home, the hell of battle. But they will carry out their mission. It's his personal respect to the official honors already won by the 92nd by Americans who have paid a price in blood and pain for the common victory. The American candidate for the presidency of the United States in the election of 1940, taken suddenly at the height of his vigor at 52. Nominated by popular reclaim in a phenomenal overnight rise to political eminence, Wendell Wilkie won the admiration of all his countrymen for his energy, honesty, and forthright courage. He spent the last years of his vigorous life in an effort to promote mutual understanding and goodwill among all nations. Talked with Churchill in London and shared experiences with Britain's average folk. Of the Middle East and of China, renewing his strong faith in unity among all people. Great American and world citizen who will be sorely missed in the critical years ahead. National security talks at Dumbarton Oaks. Undersecretary Statenius summarizes the result. We have today placed before the American people and all other peace-loving peoples the proposals which have been worked out at Dumbarton Oaks for creating the means of keeping the peace in the future. We propose the establishment of an international organization to assure that disputes likely to endanger the peace should be settled by peaceful means and that in any event, the world's peace and security should be maintained by force if necessary. Peace cannot be kept by force alone. The peace-loving nations must join together to build the ways and means of advancing the freedom, opportunity, and well-being of mankind in a world free from the fear of war. The Chinese 20th Group Army laid down a barrage against the ancient walled city of Tengchong, a principal enemy obstacle to the joining of the Lado and Burma Road. Supported by United States Air Forces and using modern arms and field pieces, this American-trained army has for five weeks bought an inch-by-inch fight against Tengchong's embattled Japanese garrison. Now the enemy's defense weakening, they storm the wall. Gaps in the ruined wall come the first wounded. Casualties are heavy. Diff fighting continues as the advance penetrates deeper into the town. Tengchong's 2,000 Japanese defenders were killed or captured in the battle. Numbers come over Ploesti in the burst of a series of continuing raids, which almost completely wiped out these huge Romanian oil fields. These Axis-made films, recently seized by the United States 15th Air Force, show the tremendous fires started in the attacks, since blazes ranging four miles in oil storage areas and railroad marshaling yards. From Ploesti alone came 27% of all Axis petroleum products to beat the Nazi war machine. Now much of it goes up in pillars of flame and smoke. The defense against this vital industrial target cost 300 American planes and 3,000 American casualties. But it vastly reduced the flow of oil to Nazi Germany.