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...School Tie. In Loma Linda, Calif., Dr. Edwin Lee remembered a Japanese classmate back in his college days when he finally got his missing anatomy textbook back - from Attu...
...swamps and jungles so thick that one force of Pioneers, unopposed, could make only four miles in two days. Enemy resistance was spasmodic but fierce. Japs, as before, had to be dug out of holes. Japs leaped from the dark tangled jungles on stretcher-bearers carrying wounded. As on Attu, Japanese hugged grenades, blew themselves and their attackers to bits...
...been mounting steadily since Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo. Propagandists deliberately played on the dread throughout Japan's annual "Aviation Day" last week. Speakers warned the man-in-the-street of raids to come, pleaded for more and better planes. An Army spokesman said-falsely-that Attu was reduced mainly by air action. Another spokesman confessed that an entire Japanese convoy was sunk in the Bismarck Sea last March by Allied bombers. Earlier, a Home Ministry official had told the people that Japan's matchwood houses are "ideal for defense," for "there is no danger...
...Army informed Japan that the ghosts of the men killed on Attu had helped the Kiska garrison in its flight, and were now guarding Japan's own shores. And just as gravely, many an official reported with awe the Emperor's interest in food, coal or steel problems-"an honor beyond expression...
...great U.S. building jobs in World War II was the high-speed construction of the swarming fleets of landing craft for the Allied amphibious attacks on Sicily, Italy, Attu, Kiska and Rendova...