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...little else to fight with but machine guns, rifles and knives; now they had ample artillery and support from sea and air. Once they massed and deployed awkwardly in textbook tactics; now they crept silently through the jungle. At Viru Harbor, U.S. Marines, infiltrating from the rear, wiped out Jap outposts and drove the defenders into the sea. The Jap supply line to Munda was cut by a roadblock which the Japs were unable to bypass. The Americans were using Japanese tactics to drive the Japs out of the Solomons...
Alan Ladd saves the day for China and the United Nations as he applies his poker-faced gangster technique to a Jap column. The plot proper isn't too convincing, with Ladd changing, in the course of a half-hour or so, from a marble hearted business man who runs oil to the Japs, to an equally marble-hearted defender of China...
Artillerymen chose positions. Within two hours of landing they were shelling Jap positions at the attack's main objective - Munda airfield on New Georgia, six miles away across a tortuous, coral-pocked channel...
...incident in a greater struggle reaching back through the Nationalist Revolution of 1927 and the Republican Revolution of 1911 to the Opium War of 1840. In the chronicle of that struggle it will be recorded that only in the sixth year of the war against the Jap did the West finally accept China into the comity of the nations on a stage of equality...
...Anglican Bishop of South Tokyo heard, to his "complete amazement," that war had begun. Six hours later, four Jap policemen dropped in, took him to a police station, frisked him, took away his suspenders but left him with his clothes and his spectacles (a considerable concession...