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...Allied Commander in East Asia. This step made as clear as anyone could expect that an end had been put to ambiguity in British and American military policy in the Far East. It proved that the British were now 1) willing to undertake a major campaign against the Japs, 2) glad to assume responsibility for the campaign, 3) committed, by the choice of a young and vigorous commander, to push the campaign as forcefully as possible. The Churchill line became one of savage verbal pounding of the Jap...
...Rear Admiral Theodore Wilkinson took over amphibious operations in the Solomons, he relieved Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner. "Terrible" Turner, who carried out the landings on Guadalcanal, the Russells and New Georgia, would be expected to pop up again suddenly and violently, probably somewhere along the flank of the Jap's easternmost defenses...
Missing in Action. Air Forces Lieut. Colonel Charles Greening, Tokyo raider credited with devising the 20? bombsight that was used lest a Norden fall in Jap hands; in a raid over Italy...
...bullets fired.) The whole process must be automatic. Said Joe Foss: "When you're in a fight you've got to think of shooting and nothing else. If you have to think about flying . . . well, you get killed." About deflection: "Best way to get a Jap fighter is to shoot him from a hundred feet, no deflection...
Last week General Stratemeyer pinned the D.F.C. and Air Medal on General Bissell. The unbuttoned Jap-killers who had long resented Pentagon polish on active duty grinned. Decorations or no decorations, the "book General" was bound for the home office...