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...kill us." Since September U.S. and Australian troops had been moving in to do it. Not until light tanks, 13-ton General Stuarts, were brought into action Dec. 8 did the tide begin to run decisively for the United Nations (TIME, Dec. 28). Even then it was a slow, bunker-by-bunker ad vance. Thrice General MacArthur announced that victory was near. Buna village and Gona, farther north, fell by mid-December, but not Buna Mission, a mile from the village, or other regions along the coast...
Tanks had turned the tide. Until they were brought into action Dec. 8, the jungle battle had been at an impasse. Then 13-ton General Stuarts, U.S.-made, Australian-manned, blasted Jap bunkers that previously had been impregnable. Infantry followed into the maze of connecting trenches with grenades, machine guns and bayonets. Bunker by bunker, as at Stalingrad, the process went...
Aircraft carrier launchings, such as this week's Bunker Hill and the converted cruiser Belleau Wood, are being announced with increasing frequency, but probably very few new carriers will be ready for action before next spring. The loss of four leaves the U.S. with only three big flattops in service, but at least seven more, not including increasing numbers of small, converted merchantmen, should be carrying planes into battle before...
...stayed away in droves to prevent a quorum. Majority leader Alben W. Barkley, stubbornly determined to get action, got the Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone, agreed to come quietly...
...private at South Carolina's Fort Jackson: Woo Eng Bunker, grandson of Eng, one of Phineas T. Barnum's original Siamese twins (Eng & Chang...