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...Professor Wood's "New Geography" (TIME, Oct. 5) intended as a subtle means of making West Coasters feel safer than Midwesterners from long-range Jap air attack...
...week's fighting, as summarized by Navy communiqués, was practically continuous. First off some Marine planes damaged two cruisers while others bombed anti-aircraft installations and strafed seaplanes at the enemy's Rekata Bay, 115 miles north of Guadalcanal. The Jap came back at Henderson Field with 35 bombers and 30 fighters. Twelve were shot down at a cost of only two U.S. fighters. The Marines managed to enlarge their three-by-six-mile territory on 25-by-80-mile Guadalcanal. At night the Jap landed more reinforcements on either side of the Marines' toehold...
American fliers still bore the brunt of the fighting in the Solomons area, breaking up two more Jap bombing forays against the airdrome on Guadalcanal and attacking enemy positions on Russell Island, about 30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal
Nearly all U.S. prisoners of war are in Japanese hands. Japan, though she signed the Geneva Convention, never ratified it. But the Japanese have publicly declared they would apply the spirit of the Convention to their American, British and Dutch prisoners. The Jap War Office has agreed in principle to permitting Y-men access to captured soldiers...
...teach initiative and coordination), units lost contact so badly that Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, Chief Umpire, cracked: "It would have cost $10 to send a postcard from one unit to the other end." But the troops had plenty of initiative and their infiltration tactics would have dizzied a Jap: one small contingent got "shot" by its own side's machine guns...