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Eugene Moore joined the Marines just a year ago; he was one of those landed on Gavutu Island in the Solomons. His tank proceeded up the beach that day in advance of the infantry, spied a Jap pillbox, stopped to fire. Out of a bomb shelter near by poured a horde of reckless, howling Japs. They swarmed over the tank, jammed a crowbar in the tank-track...
...perfectly planned, perfectly executed Malayan campaign that ended at Singapore, the Japanese used fewer than 75,000 jungle fighters against 92,000 British troops who were pitifully untrained for such warfare. Jap casualties were probably fewer than...
Japan's enemies were learning about the Japanese weapon: surprise is worth many divisions. They were learning, at last, how to fight the Japanese brand of jungle warfare. And in the Aleutians, in the New Guinea area and in the Solomons the Japs were taking a course in the cost of long communication lines: about 344 planes lost, 19 ships sunk, 21 damaged since Aug. 1. The Japanese could put a few hundred men on an island. Supplying and reinforcing them was another matter. Wake Island is farther from Tokyo than it is from Honolulu; Kiska is about...
Green-clad Australian troops swept on to the Gap atop New Guinea's Owen Stanley Mountain Range, neared Kokoda, which had been occupied by the Japs in August. But Lieut. General Sydney Fairbairn Rowell's crack Imperial troops had not yet found the main Jap forces which were supposed to be threatening Port Moresby. U.S. pilots strafed and bombed villages further along which the enemy had been known to occupy. General Rowell ordered up supplies, guns, ammunition, more troops, prepared to strengthen his positions along one of the world's wildest jungle-&-mountain trails, just in case...
...Welles to produce a picture which never falters. Even in the role of a government agent Humphrey Bogart loses none of his suave rapacity, and his characterization of an Army sleuth hoists the picture over many implausible bits of plot. With Nomura's grin still pacifying Washington, Bogart tracks Jap saboteurs in a wild chase from Canada to Panama. Ships, lonely docks, subway pursuits, and airplanes are all standard paraphenalia to this cast, which seems equally at home on land, on the sea, and in the air. Mary Astor, as the girl who's always there when the shooting starts...