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...isolated supply depot at Bairoko Harbor braked down to a process of slow elimination. U.S. troops had come to grips with the enemy in his ultimate warrens, and he was not an enemy who surrendered. Sloughing through knee-deep mud, the Americans were within capturing distance of both airfield and harbor, were cracking open the bristling, fire-spitting concrete and earthwork mounds in which the Japs have taken final refuge...
...Conquerors. Beside a captured airfield were two patches of tomatoes; the Italian owner proffered a bushel to the sweating engineers and airmen. Almost all the Italians encountered near this field waved to the British and Americans, called "Good morning" in English. Some of the men saluted-not the Fascist salute, palm out, but the old-style salute, edge of hand against the forehead. But in some towns the old, wrinkled women in the doorways and the men and the young girls were sullen. Their towns had been bombed before the ground forces arrived...
Over a British airfield, Lieut. Ralph Johnson found he could get only one land-ing wheel of his P47 down; a machine-gun bullet from a German fighter had jammed the other. He went back upstairs to think it over, and Lieut. Colonel Hubert Zemke flew up beside him to see what the trouble was. Their radio conversation, recorded in the field control room...
...Chiang Kai-shek told newsmen in Chungking she had nearly wound up on a Jap airfield on her way home. Her pilot, confused by radio signals from the field, had headed for it, then pulled away on a hunch. "I was feeling so sick at that moment," said Madame, "that I did not care where we landed. . . . I belong to the land and not to the sea or air." Reporting on the wartime U. S., she mentioned the hairpin and elastic shortage, but could give no word on girdles because, unlike the late John Barrymore, "I don't wear...
Artillerymen chose positions. Within two hours of landing they were shelling Jap positions at the attack's main objective - Munda airfield on New Georgia, six miles away across a tortuous, coral-pocked channel...