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...bomber's moon on four successive nights guided aircraft of General Douglas MacArthur's command over the jungle-clothed mountains of New Guinea to Rabaul. On one raid a Jap cruiser was hit. On another a warship was driven aground. Two other warships and numerous cargo vessels also felt the sting of night raiders striking at the best deep-water harbor in the New Guinea-New Britain area...
...Fighting Dragons met 18 Jap bombers, 25 fighters. They shot down nine positives, 20 probables. They themselves all came home safely, and for a few hours life did not seem quite so dull to the fighter boys in Assam...
...bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough, was practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds along the U.S. Pacific coast, taking care that no one else knew the location. The University of California has now discovered four species of California seaweed rich in agar, ending the frantic search for the secret Jap beds...
...well the Corsair had performed, the Navy did not say. In the Shortlands, Corsairs went out with Lockheed Lightnings to escort bombers over one of the most heavily protected Jap spots in the south Pacific. The raiders got plenty of knocking about, knocked down eleven Jap planes, left eight of their own behind when they went home...
Honolulu had only one tattooist during World War I. Today it has 18 in seven tattoo shops (run by one Jap, two Chinese, four Filipinos). For a while they thrived on a new design: "Remember Pearl Harbor," with a bomb about to drop on the words and "December Seventh" on either side of the bomb. But last week they said that U.S. sailors were returning to old favorites such as hula-hula girls, a ship framed with palm trees above "Hawaii" or "Aloha...