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...beleaguered Bataan and Corregidor, Annalee shared the troops' experience in everything but firing guns and flying planes. She ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine-stuck it out with our boys for two bitter months. You may remember Jacoby's on-the-spot reports on how the Japs dished it out and our men took it as some of the most vivid, angry reporting ever to appear in the pages of TIME & LIFE...
Before Pearl Harbor, the Japanese colony in Peru numbered some 20,000. In 1942, Peru cracked down. Jap businesses were closed or transferred to Peruvians. Many Japs were deported to the U.S. It might be harder to deport the Black Dragon...
...scarred trees, the homesick locomotive man jiggled his train off over two streaks of rust into the thick, green jungle. Scaring up small clouds of fabulously colored butterflies, the train passed what the bombs had left of a small white church, a row of Chinese graves, a smashed Jap cannon, then rolled on over swamp-spanning bridges to a line of deserted dugouts, a small American cemetery, at last to the Mogaung terminal...
Burma's Casey Jones. It was not smooth rolling at first. M.M. & M. "engineers" had to run a gauntlet of Jap snipers, take time out to fight back with Tommy guns. Hastily repaired bridges sagged dangerously, tigers sometimes trespassed on the right of way. But since the first run on July 18, the train has gone through every day, without fail...
...fighters, ran his score to 36. ¶ Flying from his carrier, the Navy's top man, Commander David McCampbell, got two more over Manila, ran his score to 32. ¶Near Cebu, Major Thomas B. McGuire, the Army's No. 2 ace in the Pacific, bagged two Jap fighter bombers, ran his score...