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...that he went to Fiji, Tonga. British Samoa and on to China, where he worked three years on the China Press and the Shanghai Times-did special pieces for Reuters, the New York Times, Asia, Travel and the Christian Science Monitor when he wasn't too busy ducking Jap bombs. In 1936 he made a flying trip to Inner Mongolia, later traveled through Manchukuo and the guerrilla-infested country of Occupied China, visited Japan often-on one of those junkets covered the whole country from Nagasaki to Aomori...
Yenan the city is no magnet to correspondents. Battered by continuous Jap bombings, it is a rubble heap inside ancient mud-and-stone walls; its inhabitants live in caves carved from the yellow loess mountains. But it is the political capital of North China's guerrilla areas with their 30 to 40 million inhabitants, and the military headquarters of a potentially powerful force of 500,000 regulars (a new high), perhaps a million irregulars...
...Jap naval forces could not have been taken by surprise. There had been plenty of warning that a U.S. force was less than 1,000 miles away...
What was the explanation for Japan's sudden shrinking in the western Pacific? Where was the Jap fleet...
Lieut. Andrew Aloysius Doyle of Brooklyn had lost much blood. Bombardier-navigator of an Army 6-25, he was severely wounded in the legs during the bombing of a Jap base in the Marshalls. He might have died but for a plasma transfusion fellow crew members gave him in midair. Plasma transfusions by doctors and nurses aboard big, bunk-filled hospital evacuation planes are nothing new. But Lieut. Doyle's planemates had never given a full transfusion before. (The flight surgeon, Captain Lowell Ladd Eddy, had insisted on crews taking along plasma, had taught them...