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...rebel, who some 40 years ago swore that he would never again set foot on U.S. soil, disregarded MacArthur's still-flying flag by setting foot in the Philippines. Old General Artemio Ricarte y Vibora drove proudly about Manila in a sleek limousine, with a spluttering escort of Jap motorcycle guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of The Viper | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...doorway to the Indian Ocean and the China Sea; Rangoon, where the road forks to India and China; Java's strong points; Australia's port, Darwin.* Even if Singapore falls, if the others are held, the Allies will still have their precious chance to exhaust the Jap to deny him control of the Pacific and Indian Oceans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: For Want of a Nail... | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

What Would It Take? If the enemy is stopped, the U.S. must do most of the stopping. What the U.S. is actually doing to stop the Jap, how the high strategists rate the chances to stop him, are military secrets. But elemental Pacific arithmetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: For Want of a Nail... | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...foot, 25-year-old Correspondent Jacoby, transferred from TIME'S Chungking bureau to Manila, two weeks before the Jap attack took a half day off to marry beauteous Annalee Whitmore, a Stanford fellow student who quit a Hollywood script-writing job to follow him to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Press on Bataan | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Bitterly he described the machine-gunning of sailors in open boats as they returned from church services. His Jap grudge was fed also by the heroism of his fellow seamen. Proudly he described the spirit and speed with which the men of the Navy went into action-"faster than in target practice"-and in spite of orders to leave burning decks stayed at their anti-aircraft guns. He recalled the magnificent calm of a small doctor who carried a 275-lb. medical chest down two deck ladders during the attack and set up his operating room by himself. Even mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fighting Emily Post | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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