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...year scrounge for armament had equipped them all with firearms, even if some were ancient fowling pieces. Most of them had uniforms and steel helmets; in the most dangerous invasion zones they had Bofors guns, machine guns, light mobile Smith guns and a thing called the Blacker Bombard, which lobs 14-or 20-pound high explosive shells at moving targets (the Home Guard practiced with old baby carriages) with startling accuracy at 300 yards' range...
There had been no blacker week since Singapore. No one vast loss, but a cumulative pattern of loss darkened the anti-Axis world; the fall of Bataan (see p. 18), disasters and failures in the Bay of Bengal and India (see p. 26), unabated retreat in Burma (see p. 26), the consequent peril to China. Heavier than any one of these tidings was the strain of waiting for the Nazis to loose their spring offensive...
Hawaii is dark as the grave. Hawaiians say proudly that Honolulu's blackout is "blacker than London's." After curfew sounds, at 9 p.m., any civilian found on the street may be arrested or shot...
Technically, the West Coast had done well in its blackouts. Reporter Ernie Pyle, veteran of many a London raid, climbed the hills of San Francisco, said it was blacker than London. London permitted traffic, inside lights, hooded street lights; on the West Coast no lights inside or outside were permitted, cars were halted. "The city might be the dusty remnants of a city dead and uninhabited for a hundred years." The West was learning that it could do what was necessary for "defense," learning too that defense was not enough...
...only in the daytime was Honolulu active. At night the blackout was complete-blacker than London ever had been. Most people dined at 5:30 and nobody went about after dark. In the beginning, sentries in the streets shot first and challenged afterwards. Kamaainas (long-settled whites) had to entertain themselves with card games and gossip at home in dim-lit, tightly-sealed rooms. No liquor was to be had, and candy sales went up with a rush. The hotspots-from the Royal Hawaiian to the plebeian Venice Cafe were shut tight. Overhead the air patrols constantly thundered...