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...infested Brazil last week the Japs were beginning to take the play away from the Nazis. While busy cops hopped frantically up & down the coast, Japs & more Japs kept turning up, equipped with everything from illegal radio transmitters to detailed maps of Brazil's shoreline. One raid unearthed an arsenal of 400,000 rifle cartridges, a lot of automatic riot rifles. Another raid at São Paulo deprived the Japs of 42 high-powered speedboats. The most sinister Jap enterprise discovered was the outfitting of a small port near Jaquiá, about 90 miles southwest of Santos, with...
...smoke from Balikpapan's fires lay low and heavy on the water and the night was moonless. After midnight four Jap destroyers burst out of the gloom across the course of Desdiv 59. Talbot swung to starboard to avoid them, hoped they would not see him. They disappeared in the night and Desdiv 59 dashed into the middle of the convoy...
...Ilha das Flores, Brazil's Ellis Island in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, the Government has some 200 enemy agents interned. Most difficult of the lot are the Japs, who make a point of posing brazenly in bemedaled uniforms. Before they are captured, however, they mask themselves in ingenious disguises. Dusting a bit of sod off a Jap farmer, Brazilian police discovered what was purportedly General Yusci Tonogawa. Another Jap turned up in the uniform of the Brazilian Officers' Reserve Corps...
From Chungking, one of Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault's pilots described recent exploits of his famed Flying Tigers. His best news: one entire flight of Jap bombers annihilated. From London, two pilots of America's Eagle Squadron, flying with the R.A.F., spoke pleasantly of their life and adventures. One (Pilot Officer Jack Mooney) had just returned from ripping one of 18 Messerschmitts apart over France. Said the other (Fred Almos): "It's a good life; it's an exciting life, and we like...
...Islands, Dwight Eisenhower was up to his quizzical eyebrows in laying the plans for defense that are still paying off the Jap. He also made up, in part, at least, a deficiency in his education. He took instruction in flying, piled up more than 300 hours as a pilot before he was called back to the U.S. To Air Forcemen, who are all sure they will win this war in the long run, this is the best possible substitute for a full education in the air at its own schools and in its fighting squadrons. If the Army...