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...largest force of Marines ever to engage in landing operations" was learning what others had learned before, in the Philippines, in Java, in New Guinea: the stubborn, wily Jap means to win or to die. Last week came details of the Japs' most pressing attack on the Solomons...
...carriers unless they believe in something." Sherrod got to Australia in its darkest hour, when most of the Anzac troops were still 7,000 miles away fighting in the Middle East, when U.S. aid was hardly more than a promise and the Japs were expected to sweep south from Java at any minute. He left just when our first major attack of the war was being launched in the Solomon Islands-so he was over there all through the seven months when the tide turned. Bob called the turn almost to the day. With the press still filled with alarmist...
...Just as we have experienced many defeats in armed warfare, so have we suffered many losses in the sector of news and information. From Pearl Harbor to the Java Sea, from the Java Sea to Murmansk and the Aleutians we have failed to utilize the great tonic that the stark realism of bad news can give a determined and united people...
...Most Army losses were at Bataan, Corregidor and Java, and most of the men listed as missing are probably prisoners. Of the Army's wounded, at least 475 are patched up, back on duty. (In all World War I only 4,526 U.S. men were taken prisoner...
...pesky milkweed, cursed by farmers, has found a use-as a substitute for kapok. With a newly invented milkweed gin, a Michigan factory will next month start removing 1,000,000 lb. of floss from milkweed pods, for the U.S. Navy. The floss will replace kapok, formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...