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...voice from Tokyo, "the war situation has increased with unprecedented seriousness-nay, furiousness." Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Air Force got its biggest weekly bag of the war: 27,000 tons of Jap shipping definitely sunk. > Against "negligible" resistance Admiral William F. Halsey's amphibious troops took the Green (Nissan) Islands between Bougainville and New Ireland, cut off an estimated 22,000 Japs in the Northern Solomons, ended the Solomons campaign. > Rabaul declined further as an effective Jap base as U.S. and Australian flyers sank twelve ships...
...thrust at Wendell Willkie, who has held no public office. And no one could miss the similarity of Point 3 to criticism of Tom Dewey. Joe Ball, adding his four points together, got Harold Stassen. From the South Seas, where Lieut. Commander Stassen is flag secretary to Admiral Bill Halsey, the waves brought no answer. The husky Minnesotan was as silent as a serviceman should...
...Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, home on leave from his South Pacific command: "The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months. The only thing to do is kill all of them...
Prediction expiring, unfulfilled: Admiral William Halsey's, that 1943 would bring "complete, absolute defeat for the Axis." Said Admiral Halsey: "I refuse to gaze into the crystal ball any more. . . . Only God knows...
...service is being held in memory of 22-year-old Lt. Ewing Shields III, brother of Miss Shirley Anu Shields, a civil service employee of the Chaplain School Administration Center. Lt. Shields was killed in action over Halsey, England on 13 November, a month after he had left the United States. Initially commissioned as a bombardier at Kirtland Field New Mexico, he received his navigator wings at the AAF Navigation School Administration Marcos, Texas...