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Pappy, pugnacious ex-wrestler and father of three children back in Washington state, had been racking up his score since Flying Tiger days under Claire Chennault. In China he had downed six Jap bombers. In the South Pacific since last summer he had become not only the hottest U.S. fighter pilot but the chief of one of the hottest U.S. fighter squadrons...
Pappy dubbed them his "Black Sheep," taught them all his cunning. In their first action the Black Sheep bagged eleven Zeros. Within six weeks their kill stood at 58 certain, 22 probables.* Pappy himself shot down five Zeros in a single engagement last September, got four Jap planes on Christmas Eve over the Rabaul hunting ground. His supreme worry now: that he will be retired from combat duty before he makes his mark...
Reconnoiterers attached to the 32nd Army Division, at General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, led a press party in the Marines' invasion of Cape Gloucester. When Jap planes passed over, Wisconsin's bespectacled ex-governor went to New Britain's grassroots...
South Pacific (by Howard Rigsby & Dorothy Heyward; produced by David Lowe) is not a good play, but it has the fairly rare Broadway desire to by-pass trash for truth. It tells of a torpedoed Negro seaman (Canada Lee) who lands on a Jap-held South Pacific island. Having been pushed around for years in the U.S., Sam is cynical and rancorous, indifferent to who wins the war, delighted that, because of his dark skin, he can pose as a native. He finds a pretty Negro missionary girl and becomes a contented lotus-eater...
Really, you'd never know there was a war going on out here. Nobody ever shoots, and I've never seen a Jap. I'm told they're out here, but God only knows where...