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...been in this country for more than a year. Landing in San Francisco after a 24 day cruise up the west coast of the Americas, he immediately struck out for Marine Base, Quantico. Va., where he was in charge of a squad of Peruvian soldiers working at the airfield there. After eight months in the South, he was ordered to NSCS, where he is now sweating it out over rough rolls, smooth rolls, and TPA's with the rest of us. Not a pilot, he specializes in aviation supply...
Largest of these islands is also called Kwajalein. It is two and a half miles long, a third of a mile wide-about as big as Tarawa's Betio. Some 50 miles north along the beads lies Roi, 7/10 sq. mi.-just large enough for an airfield...
...story of the tern colony called Wideawake Fair on Ascension Island (TIME, Jan. 3), the heading "Boobies on the Runway" is misleading. One of my naturalist colleagues who has recently returned from Ascension reports that he never saw a booby on the airfield or anywhere else in the interior of the island, although many of them live around the shores...
...Britain, U.S. Marines brought seven days of breathless climbing and vicious fighting to an end by capturing Hill 660. A minor battle by global standards, it was also one of the bloodiest yet fought by the Marines in the Southwest Pacific. The dividend: early use of the Cape Gloucester airfield, whence bombers could strike at Rabaul...
Today Lewis varies his Oxford lectures with BBC broadcasts, with talks on religion at many an R.A.F. airfield. His mail also takes up a lot of his time. Most of his correspondents are serious and he tries to answer their questions seriously. But occasionally he gets letters signed: "Jehovah." He never answers letters from Jehovah...