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Colorado's Democrats last week put forth their idea of what the well-dressed 1944 candidate will wear. Their choice was a bemedaled uniform occupied by a wounded young Air Force Major, Carl Eugen ("Kayo") Wuertele, 30. Major Wuertele (pronounced Wurtell) was at Pearl Harbor when the Japs came over. In 205 combat missions since, he collected five wounds and seven decorations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. His Flying Fortress, Hel-en-Wings (for his wife, Helen) fought over Midway and Bougainville. In the Solomons, he shot down four Jap planes, had his own left foot nearly shot...
...carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, tranports had pounced on the Gilberts, some 500 miles to the south. Then, 2,500 tons of steel had been poured on to the pillboxes and revetments to soften beaches for an amphibious invasion. Even when troops arrived, the defenses were still very hard: Jap resistance to the landings was ferocious, the cost in U.S. lives high. The Marshalls, held by the Japs for a quarter of a century, for years jealously guarded from alien visitors, were an unknown quantity. Involved this week was probably the greatest sea and air force the U.S. has yet concentrated...
Paramushiro to the Solomons. Eyes fixed hardest on the Marshalls, Tokyo looked nervously around her whole Pacific frontier. Simultaneously with the Marshalls attack bombers struck at Wake 750 miles to the north and on the edge of the Jap's mid-Pacific system. Navy bombers had struck twice at Paramushiro in the Kuril Islands. In New Guinea, U.S. and Australian troops were closing a trap around one Jap force while bombers at tacked the coastal base of Madang. U.S. troops on New Britain had widened their beachhead and Douglas MacArthur's planes steadily attacked the Admiralty Islands, through...
Submarines, operating in the China Sea, hacked at the lifelines which carried coking coal from Indo-China, oil from the East Indies, materials which the Emperor's war machine must have or stall. Washington announced this week that 14 more Jap ships, including three transports, had fallen victim to the raiders, bringing the submarine score against Jap ships to 422 definitely destroyed...
...Ames Spruance, a taciturn, 57-year-old Hoosier, commands the great fleet which began blasting its way last week into the Marshalls. In the estimate of one of his superiors Spruance is a "coldblooded, fighting fool." It is his carriers, capital ships, cruisers, destroyers which pour the steel into Jap installations, kindling the hot little islands, softening them up for the crawling crocodile fleet of landing boats...