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...Fightin' Thirteenth Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...interest to know that the Fightin' Thirteenth has been engaged in the softening-up process of Tarakan and other Borneo targets for months preceding the invasion. The success of our bombing and strafing attacks was indicated by the inability of the barbarous Nips to make a stubborn defense. Their light ack-ack and hasty withdrawal to better prepared defense positions testifies to the accuracy and deadly action the Thirteenth Air Force gave the target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...credit to the Fightin' Thirteenth, which has destroyed more than 1,300 Jap planes, sunk 500,000 tons of Jap shipping in its unbroken tour of duty from the New Hebrides, through Guadalcanal and the central Solomons, New Guinea and the Moluccas, to the Philippines and Borneo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Must have a "Welcome" Department this week, so here 'its., Welcome home, Roger Abousamra. It was a long stay in yon hospital and we all's glad to see yo back in there readin', writin', and fightin'. Ben Graves is back, too, after a tussle with "a foreign body, non-traumatic," which, translated, means the removal of a metal, shoulder plate inserted when he busted a bone some time...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: Straight Dope | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

Every man of fightin' age in the lumber town of D'Lo, Miss. (pop. 400), is a fightin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: D'Lo Goes to War | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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