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...nights later two Japanese destroyers and a light cruiser crept into the bay off Guadalcanal and shelled the shore positions. U.S. destroyers the day before had taken a Marine raiding party to little Savo Island off Guadalcanal to clean up the remnant of Japanese forces there. Life is like that on Guadalcanal...
...loss of life." The persistent Japanese returned and under the cover of darkness put men and supplies ashore on the northern tip of Guadalcanal, to reinforce their guerrilla bands in the interior. Day after day, vengeful Jap bombers with their fighter escorts drummed overhead, dropping their explosives. Even submarines crept in close to Tulagi, tried to shell the Marines...
...fight for fullback has now developed into a three-cornered one between Wayne Johnson, Tom Cowen, and Paul Perkins. Everyone expected Cowen and Johnson to be fighting it out even before practice started, but Perkins is a comparative dark horse who has crept up to a position where he is a definite contender for the first string fullback berth...
...meantime Colonel Carlson had led the main group of Marines toward the heart of the island. They crept into several shacks, found them empty except for such things as a piano and a roll of sacred music (the Marines found no trace of several Catholic nuns who had been on the islands). The clatter of the Jap machine gun, firing at Lieut. Le-François, first told Colonel Carlson that his landing had been detected. Then the Marines heard the hard chatter of truck and motorcycle engines, the flat crack of snipers' bullets from the palms...
Thanks to increased carloadings, TIME'S Index crept up to 181.2 (estimated) in the Aug. 22 week, 0.7 point above the preceding week's final figure and 20 points above a year ago. The steel-scrap shortage plagued steelmakers; power production flattened...