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Frank Schiel was poised and confident. He had been decorated (Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross) for more than 200 breathtaking reconnaissance flights over Burma, Siam, Indo-China and Occupied China. He had participated in every major campaign in China, had shot down six Jap planes; he had stayed on to help knowing Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault train the China Air Task Force...
When marines on Wake Island were repulsing Jap attacks I didn't say, "The Japs will never take Wake!" Later, when Wake was captured, I didn't say, "I told you so! We shoulda had 10,000 men on Wake! We shoulda ringed the joint with ships and had a skyful of planes...
...suppose the least Christmasy Christmas of all will be George Johnston's in New Guinea. Steamy jungles, evil-smelling swamps and man-high kunai grass are no substitutes for holly wreaths, nor the whine of Jap bullets for jingle bells, as most all the men out there will tell you (you'll find Johnston's story on Christmas with General MacArthur's men in Buna on page...
...Battle for Buna, which many observers had thought would be a pushover, was developing last week into a major struggle for control of New Guinea. It was being fought as fiercely as any battle on Guadalcanal. Allied casualties, mostly wounded, mounted steadily and piles of Jap corpses rotted in the jungles, in the swamps and on the beaches...
...languages and dialects. U.S. propagandists, who cannot reach the Japanese people by short wave or Australian medium wave, are much impressed with the Voice of China. Last week Director Peng Lo-shan was en route to the U.S. to discuss more ways of propagandizing the Jap...