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Guadalcanal. Until last week the first thundering quarter hour of the naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Nov. 13-15, 1942 had not been explained in any communiqué: "In the first 15 minutes . . . the Gushing had been put out of action by gunfire and was dead in the water; the Laffey had been sunk, the Sterett and O'Bannon had been damaged; the Atlanta was burning, and the San Francisco and Portland had been badly holed...
...view of what was happening on India's eastern border, New Delhi's communiqués seemed unduly confident, unduly self-assured. By them, Viceroy Sir Archibald Wavell, his deputy, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and his India-Burma-China theater commander, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten almost daily assured the world that there was no cause for alarm. But Washington was worried, anyhow. And so was London...
...common with every loyal citizen of the United Nations we welcomed the declarations of Teheran and Moscow, which explicitly reaffirmed the earlier declaration of Jan. 1, 1942, pledging support for the purposes and principles of the Atlantic Charter. . . . And we welcomed especially the joint communiqués issued at Moscow by Mr. Molotov, Mr. Eden and Mr. Hull, which said...
...headquarters that the initial operation had been a "reconnaissance in force" but that because of its unexpected success it was now "being developed into complete occupation." Reinforcements were rushed to Momote airfield-just in time to stop the Jap's heaviest onslaught. At week's end another communiqué indicated that Momote airfield might be in the bag. Enemy "dead & wounded are estimated at 3.000. . . . We lost 61 killed and 244 wounded." Said General MacArthur: "Our troops are preparing to resume the advance...
Advance. From Cassino, Italy, C.B.S.'s John Daly reported a G.I. communiqué describing the bitter house-to-house fighting of the day: "We captured five living rooms and three dining rooms and have advance patrols in a kitchen...