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...British forces might well be assigned to retaking Singapore and the Dutch Indies. The big question was: have U.S. air and sea successes permitted a big change in the oldtime Navy strategy? Is the invasion of South China still necessary, or will the main thrust be directly at the Jap mainland? Even more immediate was the problem of help to China, which is close to defeat at the moment her Allies are close to victory...
...them. Two of the heroes, both marines, were dead. Their mothers came to the White House in their place. From El Paso came Mrs. C. Jane Hawkins, whose son, Lieut. William D. Hawkins, after being wounded on Betio Island, had fought on for hours-to die from Jap gunfire. From Worcester, Mass, came Mrs. George F. Power, whose son, Lieut. John V. Power, died outside a Jap pillbox on Namur Island, holding his left hand to a stomach wound, firing a carbine with his right...
...heroes went to the White House. Big, blond Lieut. Alexander Vraciu Jr., currently the Navy's top-ranking fighter pilot, collected $1,900 (for 19 Jap planes) from an admiring uncle. He married Kathryn Horn, his slim and pretty sweetheart, and hurried her off to New York to visit the Grumman aircraft plant...
Typhoon Days. The typhoon was about to break against the next layer of Jap defenses. But by definition the typhoon moves in orderly fashion, always in the same counterclockwise direction,* about a single center. And U.S. Army authorities were uncomfortably aware that the United Nations effort against Japan still had four centers, largely unrelated...
...ready to jangle enemy nerves. Vice Admiral Aubrey Wray Fitch, new deputy chief of naval operations for air, surveyed the Pacific war scene last week and proclaimed: "Task Force 58, which scourged the Jap so effectively in the last eight months, was just a sweet, summer zephyr compared to the . . . weapons-old and new-which are ready to lash...