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...Shanghai branch includes Messrs. Sasaki, Kanaya and similar personalities known to every foreign correspondent. Jap navy members include such prominent figures as Admirals Takahashi, Suetsugu, Hasegawa, Yamamoto and Sekine. The head of the Aikoku Meirinkai, a powerful five-million-man military reserve organization, and the element which will form the home front army which we must fight when we invade Japan, is the notorious Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Seigo Nakano, who was a next-door neighbor of mine, is a director of the organization. From the second floor of our house, we could see over the high bamboo fence into...
Japanese Surgery. In San Diego, Sergeant Myron Koziar, back from the Solomons, was doing all right minus his tonsils, which had been removed by a Jap bullet...
...dogfight the Japs. You cannot do it with the planes you've got," said Buzz Wagner. But one day in May, when Wagner himself went along to initiate one of his green squadrons, some stragglers tried to dogfight Zeros with P-39s. Four of them were shot down. Four Japs were also shot down, three of them by Buzz Wagner, who knew better than to dogfight except when he had to. Buzz was bucking orders that day-a Jap bullet had splintered windshield glass into his left eye in the Philippines-but the chance to kill more Japs...
...Japs were still trying on Guadalcanal. U.S. forces beat off another attempt to land troops at night. With the loss of one American cruiser, nine enemy ships were sunk: two large destroyers or light cruisers, four destroyers, two transports, one cargo ship. Not a Jap landed...
...Army & Navy Air Forces, and of obvious value to airplane spotters, is of the parchesi-type. Players progress around the board from "TakeOff" point to "Mission Accomplished" by identifying correctly the silhouettes of pages of the belligerent nations. Since there are 48 silhouettes provided (main omission: the Jap Zero), Spot-a-plane will seem to most adults more like hard work than fun, but air-minded boys like...