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Huddled in a landing barge at Guadalcanal, a unit of the Army Airways Communications System prepared to shove off. Their destination was a New Georgia landing strip recently clawed from Jap hands. Their mission, performed last summer but described by the Air Forces only recently, was to install a radio station for the guidance of Allied planes...
A.A.C.S. men installed their equipment within half a mile of Jap guns. They were visited by as many as ten air raids a day. A bomb made a direct hit on the sick bay. But eight days after the landing strip had been taken, a complete A.A.C.S. station was open for business, sending a strong, clear signal into Guadalcanal. The new Allied airdrome...
...faded blue skies over the Marshalls, death kept a steady vigil. Swarms of Zeros raced up to meet the U.S. raiders. Japanese gunnery improved. (Commented a U.S. general dryly: "Jap gunners are getting more practice...
When Max Herskovitz got back home to The Bronx from a Jap internment camp in China, he found a check for $67. The money was from New York's Associated Hospital Service to reimburse him for a bill he paid to Shanghai's County Hospital last July. All the time he was interned, Mrs. Herskovitz had faithfully kept up the insurance payments...
Henry, aboard his destroyer in the same engagement, stood in to Tarawa's lagoon firing at almost point-blank range on Jap shore batteries. Direct hits on his ship did not discourage Henry, who blazed away with even more enthusiasm...