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Into many U.S. homes, by last week, there had crept the sharp, paralyzing understanding of Solomon Islands warfare that personal loss alone can bring. But even in those homes, there was bewilderment. When it all started, it was going to be so easy; it was to be offense, our turn; oh boy, oh boy. . . . Then, like a slow jungle mist, doubt came home...
...yeoman of the new flagship-now that the Wasp was doomed -scrawled nervous notes in the Quartermaster's Log. At 3:14 he wrote: "Wasp abandoning ship; various ships picking up men." Destroyers had crept near, risking fire from burning gasoline on the water. They saved 90% of the Wasp's crew...
...Russians were cautious and apprehensive, the German propagandists were definitely unhappy. Having announced the imminent fall of Stalingrad in early September, they did not know what to say last week. So they said less and less. Into their broadcasts crept a familiar note of uncertainty, evasion, desperation. It was the same note which so shook the morale of the German people last year, warning them that their victories of the summer and fall were not victory over the Red Army and Russia...
...Australians had crossed two more ridges to reach Efogi (see map, p, 34), but still no Japs. Nearing the gap. the Aussies made "light contact" with Jap patrols, but where and when the battle of the Owen Stanley Mountains would be joined, nobody knew. The Australians crept forward more cautiously, lest they fall into a Jap trap...
...possibilities of their attacking Siberia grew dimmer as winter crept like a paralysis over the far North. In their present state of harassment they were no great threat to the North American coastline. They had failed to block communications to Asia: cargo planes bypassed them, flew across the Bering Sea; Alaskan air routes were in operation. Last week the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce revealed that supplies in quantity were being flown from the U.S. to Alaska, thence to Russia and China. U.S. bombers may one day take the same route...