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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last important island hop in his leapfrogging New Guinea campaign was progressing-but it was no walkover. Sixth Army infantrymen had been all but stalled in their drive along the coastal flats of Biak Island in the Schouten group, aimed at the capture of three airfields within heavy-bomber range of the Philippines. They had to fall back, call for reinforcements, amend their tactics. Last week they drove inland, outflanked the Japs, captured Mokmer airfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Curtain Raiser? | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...chess tournament; in the lobbies of the movies, where the new Soviet Sky of Moscow told the story of the battle for the capital in 1941. and the old U.S. Jungle Book and Thief of Bagdad pictured the adventures of Sabu. At the U.S. Army Air Forces' new bomber bases in western Russia (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), G.I. Joe chummed up with G.I. Ivan. U.S. Businessman Eric Johnston continued to buzz around the Soviet Union, impress his hosts with his smoothly plain talk (see BUSINESS). At the level where Russians, Britons and Americans actually met, international relations were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Summer Warmth | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...lusty as a. G.I. bull session. (Chesty brunette to castaway sailor: "I'm going to give you something you haven't had for a loong time." Sailor: "You mean-there's a bottle of ice-cold beer on this island?") On the Road. At one bomber base a number of planes had just been lost when the show arrived. "The girls-Red Cross girls and nurses-came into the theater crying, and some of the fellows were drunk. But when we got through they were laughing, and we heard that they laughed for weeks afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hump-Happiness | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Arnold led a bomber flight to Alaska. Jimmy Doolittle was the first man to fly across the U.S. in less than 24 hours. Major General William Kepner (the Eighth Air Force fighter commander) flew around in a stratosphere balloon. Spaatz himself commanded the famous endurance flight of the Fokker monoplane Question Mark. In his crew were Lieut. General Ira Eaker, now Allied air commander in the Mediterranean, and Brigadier General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, Ninth Air Force fighter commander in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Man Who Paved the Way | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

They fought at Midway, where Major Loften R. Henderson power-dived his flaming bomber onto a Jap carrier and Captain Richard E. Fleming, with his plane in flames, led his squadron against another carrier; Fleming was last seen hurtling into the sea. Eighty-four Marines flew against the Japs during the crisis at Midway; 38 were killed. Said Admiral Chester Nimitz to their commanding officer at Midway: "The sacrifices of your heroic men have not been in vain. . . . They dealt the enemy carriers the first blow and they spearheaded our great victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES: The Brood of Noisy Nan | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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