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More TIME-worthy is the unusual, accurate method of showing Jap-occupied areas in China. Most maps do an injustice to loyal Chinese guerrillas who control vast tracts within so-called occupied territory. It's good to see a more discriminating paint brush...
...Unpredictable is the Yellow's fickle course. In the last 100 years "China's Sorrow" has wandered about 700 miles up & down the China coast. After the Battle of Taierhchwang (1938) the Chinese, not nature, broke the south dyke and sent the wayward river against the Jap invader, into the course it still pursues...
North all the watery miles to Alaska the Navy made a sudden smashing raid on the Jap-held Aleutian island of Kiska...
...they planned, one thing was certain: they had not planned the war to go as it has gone. Their reckoning did not provide for Pearl Harbor, for the fall of Singapore and The Netherlands East Indies, for a submarine blockade of the East Coast of the U.S., for the Jap moving into...
...Solomon Islands, a fringe of volcanic peaks strung for 600 miles across the northern end of the Coral Sea, 900 miles from Australia's coast (see map). It was no mere raid. It was an attack in force. The Navy was out to take the Solomons from the Jap-and with them the threat they held to the supply line from the U.S. to Australia, and to Australia itself...