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...south, on the big island of Mindanao, where the Jap had grabbed the fine port of Davao, other U.S. soldiers, fierce Moro scouts under American officers, swooped down on a Jap force near storied Zamboanga and gave the invader fits. This was not surprising. The U.S. still controls all of the island except its southern edge...
West Pointer Wainwright knows all about Bushido, all about the treatment the Jap has already given to U.S. prisoners, particularly Filipinos. He gave the note the answer it deserved: he ignored it. Along the front the firing grew...
...plotted to seize São Paulo State. Brazilian forces would be attacked by 25,000 local, secretly trained Japanese troops using anti-tank guns and artillery imported as agricultural machinery. On farms and in fishing villages, air and submarine bases were ready for a supporting invasion. Among the Jap dentists in Brazil was a General. Among the tomato growers was a onetime Jap Finance Minister...
...Jap sailor wasn't really planning to kill Father Joyce when he stood him up at ten paces on Sancian Island; it was just a game when he put a bullet through his cassock. But the missionary from Maryknoll thought his last moment was at hand. Now he knows how he will act if martyrdom really comes to him. He tried to look unconcerned, and he prayed. Not until hours later did he realize, "quite mortified," that he had said the grace before meals instead of the Act of Contrition...
...Father Joseph Sweeney tried to run the Jap blockade on a Chinese coaster with a vitally needed load of medicine for his leper colony. When two gunboats shelled the ship he slipped overboard and swam six hours before reaching shore. Now, despite the spread of the war, he is busy as ever among his lepers...