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...attacking Attu, the Army & Navy simply cut around the Jap forces on strongly held Kiska, presumably proposed to deal with them later or to starve them out. Although the Japs apparently had a relatively small force on Attu, they had a strong position. Only 35 miles long and 20 miles wide, Attu is fiercely rugged. Its swampy beaches offer no natural cover, few places for landings. The Japs would have to be blasted from every rock and shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Out on the Causeway | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Objective. Occupation of Attu will give the U.S. a bomber strip which the Japs recently built (but apparently have never been able to use in the foul Aleutian weather). That strip, when & if it can be used, places the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri, 750 miles to the west on the Northern tip of the Kurile Islands, within easy reach of U.S. bombers. Established there, U.S. fighting men would be only 650 miles from Hokkaido, topmost of the main Japanese islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Out on the Causeway | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...anti-aircraft base in China has a monkey named Taps who can tell the difference between the engines of U.S. and Jap planes; he gives the alarm by chattering and rattling his chain, then takes cover, invariably beating the official alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Battlefront Beasts | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Since Pearl Harbor the industry has expanded over 200 times. Diamond-cutting methods now used by most manufacturers have speeded up production, cut down waste. The best crystals come from inland Brazil, but WPB is pushing U.S. exploration. The Japs, incidentally, in 1930 bought up a tidy supply of quartz crystals which were an unwanted byproduct of California gold mining. Every Jap communications set captured so far has been quartz-equipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Give Us the Crystals . . . | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Last summer he broke ten world's records at distances ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 meters (slightly over three miles). From sketchy reports U.S. track fans pieced together an extraordinary figure: a fireman by trade, so thin he looks like an inmate of a Jap prison camp, and yet rugged enough to run a mile in 4:04.6, two miles in 8:47.8, three miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Visiting Fireman | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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