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There was a Fortress radioman named Warrenfels who heard that a radio operator was urgently needed on Bataan. He volunteered to go, boarded a ship trying to run the Jap blockade. The ship was sunk 200 miles off Java. Another enlisted man who is no longer with the 19th is 19-year-old Private Arvid Hegdahl, tail gunner of a Flying Fortress. After he shot down a Zero his leg was almost blown off, but he continued to shout encouragement to other members of the crew. When the time came to evacuate Java he had to be left...
...assignments since August have been the most satisfactory, most successful for the 19th. Many new planes have arrived, and some fresh pilots have replaced battle-weary veterans. A big factor in the Jap failure to recapture Guadalcanal was the 19th's constant hammering of the big base at Rabaul. Lately the 19th, now under the command of young Lieut. Colonel Richard Carmichael (TIME, Oct. 19), pioneered in flying its Fortresses at low levels. Being taught today to younger flyers are the lessons the 19th has learned, not without expense to themselves...
That same day: Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff arrived in Washington by plane to take up his duties as Russian Ambassador; in the indignation over the Jap attack, the ruling of the President's coal arbitration board that all captive coalmine workers must join John Lewis' U.M.W. was lost in the shuffle. Day before, Frank Knox, in his annual report, rated the U.S. Navy "second to none...
ROMMEL 100 MILES IN EGYPT. The count on U.S. ships sunk by Axis subs at the end of June: 323. The newspapers that told of Jap landings in the Aleutians also carried an announcement from Cordell Hull: the U.S. would resume shipment of food, clothing and fuel oil to French North Africa...
Although the Jap had been beaten back in attempts to recapture the Solomons, the U.S. losses were heavy, the U.S. position looked desperate. Almost unnoticed, a Republican trend had developed in the country. On election day, Republicans gained 47 seats in the House, 10 in the Senate, many an important Governorship. Franklin Roosevelt seemed unworried...