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Where the trail reaches up to cross a 7,000-foot pass in the lofty Owen Stanley Range, the Jap advance parties fired their first shots. Allied scouts had worked their way across the mountains and were waiting. Most of them were not professional soldiers: they were prospectors, trappers and foresters, and their lives had long depended on living off the country, hiding in it from New Guinea's cannibal natives...
...Rommel and his mighty Mark IVs teach lesson No. 2 by blazing away through the Libyan sandstorms. Then there are the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, on their dash to home port, defiantly steaming through the English Channel before the British navy woke up. A brief, shocking sequence of Jap soldiers executing a pair of Chinese prisoners suggests the basic note of frightfulness as a factor in Axis tactics...
Alaska's Delegate in Congress is square-jawed Anthony Joseph Dimond, 60. Last week he bluntly accused both Army and Navy of showing "entirely too much complacency" over the Jap invasion. "If we haven't enough power to drive them out now, how can we expect to do it when they get fully established?" An old Alaska hand, who has prospected for gold and practiced law, Delegafe Dimond declared that there are 25,000 Jap fighters in the Aleutians.* By taking Kiska the Japs are nearer the U.S. Pacific coast-and the Panama Canal-than if they...
Twenty-five Thousand Alone. Since the Navy reported last month that three more Jap destroyers had been sunk, the only news of the Aleutians has come from the Tokyo radio. A Japanese correspondent on Kiska reported that U.S. bombers were visiting the island two or three times a day, dropping their loads through the fog; that roads were being built across the black, treeless hills; that Japanese troops were unhappy over the prospect of a winter on bleak Kiska. "The loneliness in this remote northern base is hard to imagine back home," complained the writer...
First voice: "We just shot down 37 Jap planes and sank two of their submarines. Now we're a-goin' on to bomb Tokyo. Go ahead...