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Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, Guam and Hawaii by the time of the Armistice. There were also 300 marinettes or Marine Corps girls. But none were officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NAVY: The WAVES | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...second six months of war last week began for the U.S. at the point where the first six months should have started. The loss of the Philippines, of Guam and Wake, had not been undone. But Midway was what Pearl Harbor should have been. The two canceled out. In three days of concentrated destruction off Midway, the U.S. had restored the balance of Pacific naval power. Thus for the U.S. began Phase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War II, Phase II | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...front the U.S. must show its capacity to drive the invaders not only from the Attu and Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians, from Wake, from Guam, from the Philippines, but to conquer them in their own islands. To do so, U.S. armadas, in the air and on the sea, must move west, reversing the present tactical advantages. The U.S. must take the risks which Japan has so far taken, must successfully drive across the Pacific 2,575 miles from Midway to Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War II, Phase II | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...British would consider German gas attacks in Russia as if they were against the British, the Japanese answered saucily. They said that if the U.S. uses gas, "Uncle Sam's boys will be given a smell of their own Du Pont gas which the Japanese captured at Guam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: Look out for Gas | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Guam's early loss, the U.S. still knows virtually nothing. But Midway and Wake, like the Philippines, put up a fight whose military competence was as great as its story of bravery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: THE FIRST SIX MONTHS | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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