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Four for One. For these victims the enemy paid bitterly. In the first 16 days, 6,015 Jap dead were buried by the invaders. Hundreds of other Japs who died could not be counted because their bodies were atomized by high explosive, lost in the jungle or carried away by comrades...
...foot-by-foot battle even after the island's peak, Mt. Tapotchau, had been captured. Japs hung on in the ravines until they were killed. Tanks had to be used against pockets no bigger than 100 yards in diameter. Many Jap caves had steel doors which were opened periodically for machine guns to fire. Snipers were everywhere. An Army colonel was shot through the heart by a sniper who had hidden more than a week. A recurrent gag, reported TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, was that the safest place to be was in the front line...
...news of China had a somber, almost majestic sameness. Again the dispatches told of Jap advances, Chinese retreat, threatened disaster (see WORLD BATTLE-FRONTS). Again Chinese spokesmen pleaded for aid. Again the U.S. Government replied with a tribute. Vice President Wallace, leaving Chungking, left behind a message from President Roosevelt to Chiang Kaishek: "The stand which your people have made against the forces of aggression has set an example for all the friends of China...
China choked within the Jap blockade. Her lack of supplies, particularly heavy weapons for an army of riflemen and grenade-throwers, had become so vast that a new Burma Road could not satisfy it. Perhaps nothing less than an Allied landing on the China coast and the winning of a major supply port would do. Now the Japs, astride the Hankow-Canton line, threatened to cut this desperate hope. Certainly, until the blockade was thoroughly broken, no one could expect the ill-fed, ill-munitioned Chinese armies to take the offensive...
China suffered from a creeping paralysis. The Jap invader had long ago gobbled up most of her railways. Now her unreplenished fleet of motor trucks, 15,000 strong two years ago, had worn down to a wheezy 5,000 machines, and many of these were idle for lack of spare parts. More than ever, China traveled and hauled by foot, mule and human carrier. More than ever, the lack of mobility hobbled her armies, sharpened the peril of famine, loosened the bonds of central government...