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...there had to be dispersal, only dispersal-in-strength could beat the enemy on his fronts. The U.S. Navy and Marines in the Pacific had found enough ships, men and planes to overwhelm the thinly extended Japs in the Solomons. MacArthur and his Australians were ready with enough troops to set back, perhaps defeat, the Japs in New Guinea. Even the Chinese, supported by a small U.S. air force, had concentrated enough power to take full advantage of Jap withdrawals in Chekiang and Kiangsi. Plainly the Japs were suffering more from their dispersals than the Allies suffered at the points...
...Jap still held the vital coastline of southeast China, but in the interior the offensive was falling from his hands. Tokyo had its explanation. It was that troops were being withdrawn from Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces "to secure a . . . position for future action...
Immediately, that fact was encouraging. But in the long view it might be the portent of disaster. If, with the troops moved from China, the Jap took India, shutting off U.S. aid, China's glory might become China's woe, might upset all the United Nations' long-range plans...
...group of Marines toward the heart of the island. They crept into several shacks, found them empty except for such things as a piano and a roll of sacred music (the Marines found no trace of several Catholic nuns who had been on the islands). The clatter of the Jap machine gun, firing at Lieut. Le-François, first told Colonel Carlson that his landing had been detected. Then the Marines heard the hard chatter of truck and motorcycle engines, the flat crack of snipers' bullets from the palms. One by one the snipers were killed, but they...
Through the night and into the next morning the Japs met Carlson's men with rifles, machine guns and automatic grenade-throwers. Each machine gun and grenade nest had to be exterminated, to the last Jap. Corporal Edward R. Wygel of Milner, Idaho killed all but two Japs at a machine gun with a hand grenade. He then killed one of the two with a pistol, the other with his knife...