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...bitterest days on Guadalcanal a year ago, Marines used to refer to the frequent runs of Jap destroyers carrying men and supplies down the Solomons as the "Bougainville Express." Last week the Express was running again-but it was a U.S. Express and it ran the other way. Toward the end of the week the Japanese began coming out to meet the Express. The results were rough...
...Long live the victory of the Anglo-Soviet-American fighting alliance over the bitterest enemy of humanity, the German Fascist enslavers...
...dispatch which follows, TIME Correspondent Jack Belden describes the last hours of the bitterest battle which American troops fought in the Sicilian campaign...
Sherrod was in the front lines with our boys on Buffalo Nose ridge, where one of the bitterest battles of the campaign was fought. He saw U.S. soldiers bayonet Jap snipers out of foxholes, blast Jap machine gunners out of their nests. And he was one of the five correspondents who saw the fighting through to "the weirdest finish in the history of modern warfare"-the way the strange little yellow men committed hara-kiri by blowing themselves to bits with hand grenades...
Coming after one of the longest and bitterest tax fights in U.S. history, it was, like the Battle for Africa, a famous victory-particularly for an outsider like Beardsley Ruml, who has no standing in politics...