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They rounded a bend, started up a concrete path and saw a pair of 20-mm. Jap guns aimed down the trail. Charlie got them with a squirrel-hunter's "bark" shot, hitting the rock wall beside the guns and splattering them with shell and rock fragments. Next he blasted open the heavy steel doors of a Jap tunnel and set off a store of enemy ammunition...
Charlie moved nearer the dam, firing again & again: He saw four Jap huts half hidden by boulders on a hill across the river. He fired four rounds, demolished four huts. At the very end Charlie Oliver spoiled his record. He saw a small cave far up the opposite cliff, fired twice and missed both times. That brought his day's score down to 28 hits in 30 shots. When he reached the dam Charlie said that next time he wanted a bazooka with a sight...
Thus, announced the War Department last week, death came early last month to the first victims of Japanese bombing on the U.S. mainland. And Chief Lyle F. Watts of the U.S. Forest Service made public some facts and estimates about the ingenious workings of the Jap bomb-bearing balloons (TIME, June...
...balloons are kept in the stratosphere by a device which jettisons a sandbag whenever they begin to drop. Blown along by the prevailing easterly wind at some 125 m.p.h., the balloons reach the U.S. in an estimated 80 to 120 hours. When the last sandbag has dropped, Japs calculate, the balloon should have reached its goal. Another automatic gadget then starts it dropping, one by one; its load of incendiary bombs. When the last egg has been laid, a third automatic device (providing it works) permits the Jap balloon, in true Nipponese style, to blow itself...
Died. Colonel Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 80, Assistant Secretary of War under Harding, Republican Congressman from New York (1923-31), cousin to Jap-imprisoned Lieut. General Jonathan ("Skinny") Wainwright; after long illness; in Rye, N.Y. A prohibitionist, he retired from Congress rather than vote wet to please his cocktailing constituents in suburban Westchester County...