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...Home Abroad. Somewhere in the South Pacific, Medical Corps Major Robert Rosenthal spied a Jap knapsack, opened it, found a picture of his sister. It had been taken from a 1925 copy of the New Haven Register...
...only Allied casualty was one plane knocked down offshore. To rescue its American pilot-Lieut, (j.g.) Dale Christian Klahn of Laramie, Wyo.-twelve Hellcats swarmed over a nearby Japanese destroyer, pounded warming-up Jap planes on land bases. A British submarine went to the rescue. It surfaced under shore-battery range, coolly scooped up Klahn and submerged while 6-in. shells laced the water around the conning tower. For the Japanese it must have seemed a harebrained performance to salvage one expendable...
Seizure of Hollandia, with its three excellent airfields which have accommodated as many as 300 Jap planes at a time, means that MacArthur would gain a base 960 miles southeast of the great Jap base at Palau (whose seizure may be necessary before landings can be made in the Philippines) and 1,200 miles southeast of Mindanao, second-biggest island in the Philippines...
...Marshalls operation required some 1,500,000 barrels of ships' fuel. On Kwajalein one night twelve Jap planes got through, bombed a "particularly explosive target." Damage...
Soldier of Fortune. Major Gregory Boyington, aged 31, of Okanogan, Wash., had shot down 26 Jap planes-six as a Flying Tiger, 20 as a Marine pilot in the South Pacific-without ever having been given a medal (TIME, Jan. 17) not even one of the 100,000 Air Medals which have been strewn (chiefly by the Army Air Forces) around the globe. Last week, three months after he had failed to return from a mission, Boyington's medal came through...