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...lizards. Resourceful, they grew some of their own food by planting small gardens of taro and kaukau (something like yams). When they could, they killed game like cassowary or ratite bird, but meat was a rarity. Once they found some canned salmon that had washed ashore from a sunken Jap supply ship. For ten long, horrifying months they fought sickness and hid from Japs in New Britain's jungle. Last week the world learned that by sheerest luck they had been rescued...
Their 6-26 medium bomber, eight men aboard, set out last May to bomb Jap-held Rabaul. "We dropped our bombs on the runway and machine-gunned two bombers on the ground," said 2nd Lieut. Eugene D. Wallace of Los Angeles, the plane's copilot. "Antiaircraft fire was awfully heavy and ... we were hit. . . . The pilot said we would have to make a crash landing...
...crew were killed in the crash. The other six, wounded, made their way to New Britain's coast. Their chief worry was capture. Sometimes they were so close to Jap troops, said 2nd Lieut. Marvin Hughes of Baird, Tex., "we could have whistled at them." Once they hid on one side of a narrow stream and watched Japs eating breakfast on the other side. Two of the six were finally captured. Another died...
...Sixty Jap planes (40 of them bombers) plastered Allied-held Oro Bay in New Guinea...
...Five Jap destroyers and a cargo ship were spotted steaming toward New Georgia, apparently to reinforce frequently bombed Munda...