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Odds Evener. Japan's losses definitely ended Japan's terrifying naval superiority in the Pacific. Now the enemy was a cut below the U.S. Pacific Fleet in sea-air power, but it was not yet time for the U.S. to crow. Its newly won superiority was still too thin for broad-scale offensive action, and it was offset by the Jap's formidable holding of island bases (stationary aircraft carriers) in the western ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: A Chapter of History | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...sauntering black fellows in strange U.S. uniforms, wondered who on earth they were. With equal politeness the Negroes told them: they were American Indians. The first Negro troops ever to land in the tight little isle- two Quartermaster Corps truck companies- they had not yet learned that Jim Crow never got to England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Sho' Like It Here | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Crow Meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

When you speak so positively about American ingenuity you are just cooking up a mess of crow meat which you may be asked to eat before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...cause to crow last week. It signed a first-class commentator for September delivery. NBC's new man was old to radio-Mutual's purring, precise Raymond Gram Swing, who saw in NBC a chance for a bigger audience, a bigger salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Swing to N.B.C. | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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