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...This was no repetition of Aug. 8-9, when the U.S. lost three heavy cruisers and the Australians one in a surprise night attack. This time Halsey apparently obtained the surprise. His guns opened at point-blank range; his torpedoes went home. In the resultant confusion two of the Jap groups fired on one another...
...Some Jap Navy units came back about 24 hours later to pave the way for troop landings. Halsey's land-based airmen went out to meet the transports, sank eight of twelve. The remaining Jap transports went on toward Guadalcanal. The U.S. warships closed in again. Next morning four more transports were found beached at Tassafaronga, seven and a half miles west of Henderson Field. Presumably some of their troops had landed under fire during the night. But the Jap armada had fled...
...Aussie's advance proved the wisdom of their caution. All along the terrible track eastward they found reminders of overzealous progress-emaciated, unwounded Jap corpses littering the jungle, dead whose stomachs contained poisonous fruits, undigested...
Last week the Diggers prodded the enemy backwards from Oivi to Gorari to Ilinow to Wairopi, only 40 miles from Buna. They also outflanked the Japs, prying them out with belly-ripping steel, then cutting off retreat. Probing northward, American patrols joined the Aussies at Wairopi, drew their first Jap blood...
...Russo-Japanese nonaggression and neutrality pact was a diplomatic trump for the Kremlin-a way "to impress the Germans," says Author Scott. Stalin and Molotov went personally to the Moscow station to say farewell to the Jap signers. This joy had been celebrated in too much vodka. "Stalin went up to the aged and diminutive Japanese Ambassador General, punched him rather hard on the shoulder with an 'ah ... ha'. . . . The Japanese Military Attache staggered up to the dapper and fastidious . . . Soviet Chief of Protocol and slapped him on the back. Matsuoka got the giggles and thought that...