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...Mare Nostrum" is what the unoriginal Japanese broadcasters call the Arafura Sea, which separates Australia's north coast from the western half of New Guinea. This Jap-claimed sea, nearly 4,000 miles south of Tokyo, is half the size of the Gulf of Mexico, is dotted with some 200 small islands divided into three archipelagos. Last week Tokyo Radio claimed that Japanese troops had occupied some more of these islands. There was no one to dispute the claim. The Japanese had been inching into outposts of The Netherlands East Indies ever since they seized Timor last February. They...
...been veiled in mystery. This much had been known: the Australian cruiser Canberra and four transports had been sunk. This week the Navy let some more news trickle and the trickle turned out to be a torrent. Three heavy U.S. cruisers were sunk: the Quincy, Vincennes and Astoria. The Jap, surprised at the Marines' landing Aug. 7, had turned around less than 48 hours later and pulled his own surprise. Casualties were "many," but "a majority" were saved. The Navy has not yet claimed sinking any Jap ships in that engagement...
...last week the Navy and Marines were too busy fighting for their lives on Guadalcanal Island to brood over two-month-old losses. During the week they sank a Jap destroyer, damaged two cruisers and four other ships, shot down seven more planes. Totals since Aug. 7:38 ships damaged or sunk,* 245 planes shot down...
...Marines had been able to hold on to their islands after such a bad start was a tribute to their tenacity and fighting skill. Whether they could continue to hold on depended on: 1) the amount of U.S. reinforcements that could be brought up; 2) the price the Jap was willing to pay. Three times within ten days, the Navy admitted, the Jap had been able to land reinforcements on his side of bloody Guadalcanal, in spite of heavy losses. An all-out battle for the Solomons looked closer & closer...
...grizzled, hard-bitten veteran of World War I, Colonel George F. Unmacht, Hawaiian Coordinator for Civilian Gas Defense, is the creator of the bunny mask. With a Jap gas attack always a dread possibility, Colonel Unmacht decided that he "wanted something that would temporarily protect very young children from the effects of poison gas until they could be removed from the gas area." His emergency solution was to set the women stitching together sacks which, when impregnated with gas-resistant chemicals, could be drawn over infants' heads and tied tightly at the bottom. But how would a child like...