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Daily, General MacArthur's heavy bombers hit Jap reinforcement bases to the north. U.S. reinforcements arrived and unloaded just before the Jap returned with a battleship-supported surface force, proceeded to bombard Henderson Field at will...
That night the Jap Navy was back again, lobbing more shells into U.S. shore positions. U.S. torpedo boats went into action for the first time, probably hit a cruiser...
Closer & Closer. Early in the morning of Oct. 15 the Jap swept past little Savo Island, was able to make daylight landings for the first time on the northwest tip of Guadalcanal, only 15 miles from the Marines' toehold. He paid heavily. Haggard American flyers hit a battleship, fired three transports that still burned late that afternoon. But the Jap still came. He lost 17 more planes in one attack on Henderson Field. At week's end the Jap landed artillery and brought it close enough to shell U.S. positions, now under attack from land...
This week U.S. warships again moved in, blew up ammunition the Jap had just landed on Guadalcanal's northwest tip. The Jap retaliated by sending 40 planes at Henderson Field. Grumman Wildcat fighters clawed down 19 of them, lost only two of their...
Minnesota's bluff, ruddy Congressman Melvin Joseph Maas, colonel in the Marines, returned to Washington from action in the Southwest Pacific, wearing the Silver Star for conspicuous service. He led an air hunt for Jap cruisers, found none, but shot up a couple of airdromes before returning to base. Jay Cooke III, great-grandson of the famed Civil War financier, an ex-socialite now a rock-jawed, boot-tough soldier, won a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went...