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Final Offensive. The final offensive had begun five days previously, when encircling U.S. troops broke through Jap lines on the north and south. Flame throwers proved the answer to the Jap's bombproof, duplex bunkers. Soldiers advanced under Jap guns and sprayed fire from two sides into the gun openings and eyeslits, scorching the Japs out. Ingenious mechanics improved on the tactic by affixing flame throwers to the light marine tanks. These blowtorched the path into Munda. In the last days little Jap resistance remained. The cumulative effect of the tremendous bombing and shelling to which Munda had been...
...Japs, well knowing that loss of the commanding ridges above Salamaua would seal its doom, fought desperately. To counter the Allied guns they had a few 75-mm. and 6-in. guns, but for the most part relied on their bombproof burrows, mortars and machine guns...
...reported, could be partly explained by the fact of overwhelming U.S. air and naval superiority: ground commanders had expected the heavy bombings and shellings to pave the way for a nearly bloodless advance of the infantry. This expectation had not been realized, because the Japs had built so many bombproof bunkers, often cleverly using bomb craters as excavation for the log- and dirt-covered shelters. They could be licked only by extermination...
...months past, rumors of military misdoings had been piling up around Selfridge Field, Mich. Griping and gossip centered on ugly stories of unsoldierly behavior, favoritism, trading in promotions and bombproof jobs. Then came the most fantastic rumor of all: that the commander of the field, a full colonel, had been arrested for shooting a Negro private...
...least 95% of science museums' collections will remain in their museums throughout the war. Curators were busy last week at other jobs than warehousing: Smithsonian scientists, for example, were prospecting for metals in Mexico, devising instruments for the Navy, doing other tasks which were as secret as their bombproof caches...