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...taught that they are citizens of Liberia, hence not subject to Selective Service. Elijah Muck-Muhd's faithful knew themselves for Moslems, excused from the draft by direction of Allah in the person of his prophet, Muck-Muhd. Hammurabi's disciples learned they were members of a Jap army within the U.S., that Negro hopes of betterment depended upon Jap victory. All of them, according to an FBI spokesman, had lavish and expensive costumes, plenty of money. The twoscore black Jap puppets had been set up in a dozen cities by members of Japan's fanatical Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Takcihashi's Blacks | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...largest force of Marines ever to engage in landing operations" was learning what others had learned before, in the Philippines, in Java, in New Guinea: the stubborn, wily Jap means to win or to die. Last week came details of the Japs' most pressing attack on the Solomons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: More Came On | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Axis raiders have blasted at least 500 United Nations merchant ships to the bottom in Atlantic waters since the sneak Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, but the toll has dropped steadily in recent weeks due to improved defenses, an unofficial United Press compilation showed tonight...

Author: By United Press., | Title: Over the Wire | 9/29/1942 | See Source »

...When Corregidor's anti-aircraft guns opened up, no single shell could reach within 5,000 feet of the Jap raiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: By Guess & By God | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...they tell their story of this fight simply and conversationally-how their six boats became an infuriating menace to Jap warships and transports, how they fought to keep them afloat even when hulls were ripped open by coral reefs, how their gas tanks were clogged with wax put in their gas by some unknown saboteur. Sent out on patrol from Bataan, to fight lone actions against enemy cruisers and destroyers, Squadron 3 sank "probably a hundred times [its] own combined tonnage in enemy warships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: By Guess & By God | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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