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After the opening round the only question was how quick and how powerful the Jap counterattack would be. One naval attempt to relieve the Jap defenders had already been beaten off at the very outset of the U.S. offensive in a bloody seafight on the night of August 8-9. But that time the Japs had sent a boy to do a man's work, and they would not make that mistake again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Counter-Attack | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...write this story, in this cave that is our operations room, a red arrow on the map indicates that Jap planes are bombing the town of Kao-yao, 40 miles outside of Canton. Evidently they are so mad at being caught by us that they are taking it out on the helpless Chinese villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: FLIGHT TO THE RISING SUN | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...English-language broadcast, the Tokyo radio declared that tolerance and freedom of religious faith in Jap-controlled areas would be extended only toward church bodies willing to cooperate with the conquerors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Un-Christian Co-Prosperity | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Other Agricultural Department chemists revealed new wartime medicinal uses for pectin, the chemical in apples which makes jelly jell. Working on Navy orders the chemists discovered: 1) pectin paste and tannic acid is a natural for battle burns; 2) pectin is a good stand-in for Jap-controlled agar-agar, intestinal lubricant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Apples Go to War | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed bastards from now on." In Phoenix: "How many of the yellow so and so's have we killed?" A San Francisco motorist: "Down the street I almost ran over a Jap on a motorcycle. Maybe I should have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the People Said | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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