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...Threats. Meantime, in the sheltered water of Lamon Bay, first at Atimonan and later at Mauban, the Jap put down another heavy force. It had tanks, and tanks were sent out to meet it. In a heavy engagement both sides suffered considerable losses on a battlefield between 60 and 75 miles from Manila. From Lamon Bay the Jap thrust toward the southwest, flung himself across the narrow peninsula south from Mauban to Tayabas...
...take Bengasi, the capital of Cyrenaica, Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie, in charge on the battlefield, had to push out Germany's General Erwin Rommel. All last week Rommel had prepared to make a stand at Bengasi with what was left of his armored forces. Apparently changing his mind, or afraid of losing valuable armored units, he abandoned the town, hit southward to Agedabia, 95 miles from Bengasi. Here he waited for the remainder of his armored forces to come in from Mechili farther north. Fighting a rear-guard action for both his units were Italy's desert...
...that is going on is the result of a vast conspiracy by a handful of international gangsters calling themselves Axis powers....We now have, in various parts of the world, separate sectors of one great battlefield.... We are proud and happy to count ourselves the allies of your great country...
...homebodies, the field where U.S. soldiers were giving their lives (see p. 16) seemed the most urgent. But to the Allied strategists, there was no more important battlefield than Malaya. On that battlefield Singapore was at stake. At Singapore the future of the Allies in Asia was at stake...
...battlefield were around 400 light (13½-ton) U.S. tanks, each armed with a 37-mm. cannon and machine guns, some 50 U.S. mediums-30-tonners armed with a 75, a 37 and machine guns. Those were the equals, on paper, of the Germans' heavy (32-ton) Mark...