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...their disgust and scorn with jeers and boos and very much-to-the-point one-word descriptions. They have just "seen themselves" portrayed on the screen a la Hollywood's idiotic hoopla. Some marcelled hero with rouged lips and a do-or-die voice has just charged a Jap battalion with six grenades clenched between his Pep-sodent-perfect molars, a Tommy gun in each hand and enough knives and bayonets stuck in his belt to start a hardware store; he has not only wiped out the battalion singlehanded, and held the bridge that saved his division from annihilation...
Ever since Pearl Harbor, many a U.S. citizen has wondered why the fleet was bottled up, in port, on Dec. 7, an easy target for the Jap bombers. Last week a yellow-haired New Deal Congressman, Warren G. Magnuson, suggested an answer which might have come straight out of the pages of Dr. Fu Manchu-the Japanese, said he, had "made a patsy" out of the State Department. Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, the story went, had complained to Cordell Hull that the far-ranging activity of the U.S. Navy gave Japanese militarists a chance to block his efforts at preserving...
...subs, now operating from new advanced bases and thus able to stay longer in the Empire, were biting even deeper into the artery; they were sinking Jap ships at the rate of two a day. In the Indian Ocean, British and Allied submarines were creeping up to the same rate of destruction...
Major Richard Ira Bong, who shot down 27 Jap planes in the Southwest Pacific, passed through Salt Lake City on a commercial airliner, complained that he could not sleep. Reason: he was airsick...
Admiral Raymond Spruance used-them to fill out the ranks of his first-line carriers. The CVEs were entrusted with the job of covering the Saipan operation while the big carriers moved on to meet the Jap fleet off the Philippines. Last week a CVE air squadron, Composite Squadron 33, was home after ten months of combat in the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Hollandia, Aitape and the Marianas. Planes and guns of the baby carrier had destroyed 35 Jap aircraft. The little flattops had become an offensive weapon...