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LIFE notes that they are about to wade into the jungle for the purpose of cleaning out some Jap outposts. TIME says they have just returned from what was presumably the same mission...
From LIFE, April 13, page 33, bottom cut: A group of marines are shown standing in a barbed-wire enclosure. The caption reads "Marines on Bataan line up for orders before wading into the jungle to clean out some Jap outposts...
Mouthing an unlit cigar, Lewis swung his arms in a swimmer's breast stroke, swatting Jap ships down. He would sweep on southward, he had told the open-mouthed diners, until all Japan's conquests had been retaken and the Japs' power utterly destroyed. Then he would attend to Germany. "Then would come the vengeance," Lewis thundered...
...aviation, received a present from the White House last week. The present: the star of a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Air Forces. To Jimmy Doolittle, onetime crack amateur boxer, who turned his back on a fat job in commercial aviation to get a shot at the Jap, this came at an appropriate time: within the week of the bombing of Tokyo...
...that he is not content to spend his Sundays drably in sedate strolls or in solemn indoor sportlessness. He wants everyone else to be Sunday-drab, too. And for soldiers who are working like horses six days a week to save the wowser and his friends from the Jap, that is something to howl about...