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...most heartening U.S. communiqués of the war came out last week. It came not from the Army or Navy but from the Agriculture Department's Crop Reporting Board. CRB's latest report-on 1942 farm planting-was, as usual, statistics-crammed, unreadable. But in the light of Secretary Claude Wickard's maxim: "Food will win the war and write the peace" (TIME, July 21), CRB's communiqué showed that the U.S. had won the first big engagement in the Battle of the Soil...
With what they had, U.S. and Australian airmen strove to smash, scatter and delay the assembling Japanese convoys and air fleets before they could gather their full strength for assault. A Navy communiqué from Washington reported a great victory by U.S. and Australian naval airmen (who probably flew PBY patrol bombers). Two heavy cruisers were sunk, and the attacking airmen thought, with varying degrees of certainty, that they had also sunk a light cruiser, three destroyers, five troop-jammed transports, a gunboat and a minesweeper. They damaged a fourth cruiser, a fourth destroyer, six transports, an aircraft tender...
...knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent a 4-in. shell into the E-boat's water line and hosed its deck with machine-gun bullets. "It is considered," said the Admiralty communiqué, "that this boat was sunk...
...correspondents' third battle was coverage. Australia is roughly the size of the U.S., and action is scattered around much of its frontier. Moreover, although Canberra is technically the capital, the Cabinet just as often meets in Melbourne or Sydney, and communiqués are issued all over...
...Admiral Hart, schooled by black experience, breathed a definite air of conviction that the U.S. can yet win its Pacific war. No submarine losses were reported in the U.S.-British summary of the battle of Java. Of five U.S. destroyers referred to in the communiqué, only one was reported lost. The Houston was the only cruiser of at least 52 which the Navy admitted losing in any theater. Comforting to Navy men was one point which seemed academic to laymen: of all the warship losses in the battle of Java, not one was attributed to air attack...