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Over the weekend Jap losses mounted. Raiding Darwin, they lost 12 planes destroyed, 12 damaged. Next day they sent 36 Zeros to attack Lae, New Guinea, were met by U.S. Lightnings. Result: 14 Zeros shot down, 9 more set afire...
Yeller Feller. By 1904, when Government Clerks Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth arrived in Port Zodiac (Darwin), the town was a thronging spectrum of racial color. "Going combo" (mixing with the native women) was officially taboo but an enthusiastic reality in a country short on white women and addicted to "black velvet." Soon half-castes outnumbered whites three-to-one. Unrecognized by their white fathers (who felt vaguely double-crossed), they were tolerated as mongrels by the blacks...
When he followed two other crack men to a soldier's fate - Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George had been killed last year in an accident at Darwin - air men spoke for him the air's understated epitaph of full praise: "He was a good man to have around...
Died. Major Leonard Darwin, 93, eugenist, last surviving son of Charles Darwin's five; in Forest Row, Sussex, England. Onetime member of Parliament (1892-95), president of the Royal Geographical Society (1908-11), the Eugenics Education Society (1911-28), he energetically plumped for eugenic reforms, which he saw as Western civilization's safeguard against "slow and gradual decay." He also devoted himself to correcting misconceptions about his famed father, a windmill-tilting job. In 1934 he commented: "As I grow older, my faith in the veracity of mankind gets steadily less & less, and now, in my 85th year...
...Darwin he got a Japanese bomb splinter in his head during an air raid. He met his old chief of staff, Douglas MacArthur, upon the latter's arrival in Australia. Then he took off for New Zealand as the first U.S. Minister to that Dominion (the job for which he had ostensibly been sent to the Pacific in January...