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...Jap struck before noon. "11:58 a.m., 24 Jap bombers on a northern course hit airdrome in close column of division 'Vs' from 3,000 feet. 100-pound fragmentation bombs and simultaneous strafing. Casualties, 25 dead, seven wounded, seven airplanes burned, destroyed...
Since that morning's news, VMF-211 had been on patrol, and the Jap struck when eight planes had returned to refuel -destroying seven of them on the ground. He was back again next morning, 27 planes. He bombed the hospital, killed several patients. One enemy plane was shot down. The Jap hit again the following morning with 27 planes. The Marines knew what to look for next. The Jap was softening them up for a landing party...
...came before the next dawn: "Dec. 11, 5 a.m. landing attempt by twelve Jap ships, including light cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, two troop or supply ships. Jap casualties: one light cruiser, two destroyers, one gunboat, two bombers...
...Jap had learned something. He went back to bombing. Wake was hit by 27 planes, again by 32, by 30, by 41. He came again & again. With his patched-up ships, Paul Putnam's men went up to meet him, while the men on the ground slammed away with cannon and machine...
...relayed by Naval radio. Like MacArthur's bare communiqués, it said nothing about the whereabouts of the correspondents. Adventures of some others: > At Rangoon U.P.'s Darrell Berrigan lay dangerously ill of cerebral malaria. He had come through the jungles from Bangkok, outwitted the Japs who arrested him as a spy on the Thailand-Burma border. > A.P.'s 34-year-old Larry Allen, now back with the British Mediterranean fleet, turned in his masterpiece with the story of the torpedoed British cruiser Galatea, which he survived by a near-miracle on Dec. 16. > From Free...