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...more. The soldiers, sailors and marines are all brown as leather. Men who are not manning guns usually finish their work of building, rebuilding, camouflaging and drilling two or three hours before dark, so there is time for a baseball game or a swim (being careful of the sharp coral rocks). Or perhaps a can of beer-the ration is two cans a week in the isolated outposts. Supper may be Spam, canned beans, baked potatoes, coffee with chicory and canned milk, Jello...
...positions. Chungking reported that the Japanese naval command had detailed four battleships to the Solomons area. Army Flying Fortresses spotted and bombed a strong naval force northeast of Tulagi, but could claim only "possible hits" on two battleships. A sea-&-air battle on the scale of Midway and the Coral Sea was imminent...
...film opens with semi-travelogue shots of the serene little coral reef that is Midway, of the gulls, gonies and Marines that live there, passes on to the alarm from the lazing patrol planes at sea, watches the huge khaki Flying Fortresses trundle heavily off the runways, the men moving with the deceptive leisure of Americans-and then come the Japs...
...they tell their story of this fight simply and conversationally-how their six boats became an infuriating menace to Jap warships and transports, how they fought to keep them afloat even when hulls were ripped open by coral reefs, how their gas tanks were clogged with wax put in their gas by some unknown saboteur. Sent out on patrol from Bataan, to fight lone actions against enemy cruisers and destroyers, Squadron 3 sank "probably a hundred times [its] own combined tonnage in enemy warships...
...game last Saturday to form the "First Lexington Squadron" ... The selectees will enter training and serve as a unit as part of the program commemorating the launching of the new carrier U.S.S. Lexington... Lieutenant Harold E. Williamson, recently commended for "courage, skill and endurance" during the Battle of the Coral Sea in which the old carrier was sunk, administered the each...