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...Jap who looked forward to dictating peace to the U.S. in the White House is dead. Last week, in Tokyo's Navy Club, the ashes of Isoroku Yamamoto, who had been Naval Commander in Chief of Japan, lay in state. Tokyo reported that the Admiral had been killed, "in combat with the enemy," during April...
China's six-year-old war with Japan this week was at its gravest stage since the retreat from Burma a year ago. North of Changsha the Jap had opened a new, three-pronged drive with 50,000 men. Behind this offensive might be a plan to drive toward Chungking...
Chungking is 280 miles southwest of the Yangtze gorges. If the capital and its hinterland of Szechwan Province is the goal, strategy should call for complementary Jap drives from north and south...
Remnants of Attu's Jap defenders were herded this week into three tiny pockets of bitter-end resistance on the northeast tip of the Aleutian outpost. Because most of them would probably choose death to surrender, several days of mopping-up operations were in prospect; but U.S. troops, in less than two weeks of fighting, had won their most important victory in the Pacific since Guadalcanal...
...Surrender. The advance started under cover of a heavy bombardment from U.S. warships. Not until the attacking columns reached points about three miles inland did they encounter serious resistance. On Temnac Bay, beyond Murder Point, a unit led by Captain Robert Goodfellow surprised a Jap gun position. Before the guns could be manned every defender was killed. Not one offered to surrender. Another unit landing at Blind Cove fought across a ridge, waist-deep in snow, to join a main assault column. The Jap was tricky. Routed from one foxhole, he would escape by tunnel to another. But his tricks...