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WASHINGTON--American torpedo planes and dive bombers, blasting the seventh Jap invasion against Guadalcanal, sank an enemy cruiser or destroyer, set fire to three other warships and shot down 10 aircraft last Thursday at a cost of only three planes, the Navy disclosed today...
...troops land in North Africa; Nov. 13-15: the U.S. Navy sinks 28 Jap ships in the epic Battle of Guadalcanal...
Just how savage the Japs could be in their determination was revealed by the bombing and strafing (with newly arrived planes) of field hospitals which were well marked with several 18-foot red crosses. Marked hospitals are not protected by antiaircraft, and the strafers flew so low that survivors said they could see the Japs' faces. Five Americans and 20 Australians, including two doctors, lost their lives. Until the last Jap had been pushed back to the sea, the going would be tough, bloody, merciless...
DECEMBER 8, 1941--University announces no fundamental changes on day following Pearl Harbor. Student Body gathers in Sanders Theatre to hear President ask Congress for war. Faculty members ask for united effort. Jap students here interned. Forum of President Conant, Ralph Barton Perry, Dean Landis, and Loren MacKinney '42 pledge united support of college...
...Monday morning CRIMSON headlines shrieked "UNIVERSITY DELAYS IMMEDIATE ACTION AS AMERICAS PREPARE TO FIGHT AXIS; 4 Jap Subs Sunk, Many Planes Fall Near Hawaii; College Defers Changes; Faculty Voices Opinion." Said Government Professor Bruce Hopper, now presumably some-where across the seas, "The Japs have delivered it into our hands on a platter. The hot-headed Japanese have played right into our hands. By this move she has written herself off in history as a great power." Claimed Pitirim A. Sorekin, professor of Sociology, "Personally, for many years I have been warning that Japan has been preparing, not only against...