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...Wewak sector of New Guinea, 6th Division troops last week finally managed to breast the Prince Alexander Ranges, take a village and an important track (i.e., trail) junction. But progress promised to be slower now: behind imposing fortifications, the opposition of perhaps 70,000 remaining New Guinea Japs stiffened sharply...
From Okinawa last week came word that Lieut. Robert J. Herwig. a 6-ft. 3-in. platoon leader of the 6th Marine Division, had distinguished himself again-this time by plunging into a burning plane and dragging three men to safety. On Guam last year the onetime All-America football player (University of California) had won the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" by leading his men in repelling three heavy Jap counterattacks, and by refusing evacuation though he was twice wounded. His own men know Bob Herwig only as an exceptional officer. They have all but forgotten what U.S. civilians...
...veteran 37th Division, under a confident Ohio National Guardsman, Major General Robert S. Beightler, drove 22 miles in 24 hours, captured Santiago, then pushed on 15 miles more. To the west, Brig. General Charles E. Hurdis' 6th Division swept up the Japanese trying to escape on Highway...
Tenth Army troops poured in through the cracked Shuri line. Shuri village, taken next day, was found to be a "stinking 120-acre mass of ruins." Most of Naha, the island capital, which had been cleaned up before Shuri by the 6th Marine Division, was equally deserted and flattened...
...good measure there is a featured 6th-Century B.C. krater (wine bowl), decorated with alcoholic, carnal highjinks that are unmistakably Freudian...