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...holiday crowd jampacking the Vasco da Gama football stadium, President Vargas reviewed the contributions of Brazil to the Allied cause, promised that cooperation with the Allies would be even .closer "in the reconstruction period," which he forecast would be "equally difficult." Elections, he explained, would have to await the war's end and "a calm atmosphere...
Troops from the transports had long since been loaded into their small boats or amphtracks [amphibious tractors] when I boarded a small boat at 7:45 with a brigadier general and his staff. We rode out to a control vessel to await orders to land. By now the acrid stench of gunpowder was strong, even 3,000 yards offshore in the control boat. A pall of smoke now covered the length of the island, obscuring even Mt. Tapotchau. A shell splashed 150 yards off our bow. Said the captain: "I think we are being sniped...
Pearl Harbor, and Delos Emmons' ability as a crack administrative officer, abruptly changed the course of his career. General Emmons was sent to take over the Hawaiian Department from Lieut. General Walter Short, who was retired to await court-martial (and is still waiting). In a commendably short time Emmons reorganized the Islands' disorganized defenses, built innumerable airfields, carried out the Army's share of rebuilding Pearl Harbor as the U.S.'s anchor bastion in the Pacific Ocean...
...parade around the country on "trips of inspection." With a military escort, a couple of Cabinet ministers, a mobile radio station and an official biographer, he tears along the roads at breakneck speed. Landowners greet him with floral arches, sometimes line up their Indian laborers days in advance to await his coming. During brief pauses in the villages, he judges intricate cases of law in a minute flat, fires judges, reverses court decisions, releases prisoners, slaps others in jail. Often he makes up his mind simply by staring at a prisoner. Over the portable radio he gives advice on cooking...
...knowing no more than any other laymen about where the invasion would strike, had simply chosen what seemed to them a likely spot. Like the seven other drawings in LIFE'S invasion story, this one had been engraved two months ago, laid away at the printers' to await the fateful flash from England...