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...Islands 750 Japanese were trapped, then "massacred" by tanks which ground hundreds of the bodies into the rubble and splinter of a coconut grove. At Milne Bay in New Guinea 120 Japanese were "slaughtered" by U.S. and Australian troops slugging it out for a vital airfield. Far north at Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians, U.S. bombers and escorting fighters flushed land troops and "mowed 'em down like straws." These were actions that the Japanese, fighting just as desperately, could respect. They could also understand the U.S. strategy of kill-or-be-killed...
Major Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late Teddy, took part in his first action against the Japs-a reconnaissance flight over Kiska. Back home, his 20-room manor at Oyster Bay, L.I., was opened as a convalescent home for torpedoed merchant seamen. Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, reviewing a parade of WAACs at Fort Des Moines, congratulated the leader of the winning group of marchers so successfully that Margaret M. Wheatley burst into tears. Emily Bradley Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor, enlisted in the WAVES in Boston as an apprentice seaman. Alfred Ryder, 26, long the "Sammy" of Radio...
...Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General MacArthur. The other, Warren Magnuson of Washington, talked a little. His conclusions: "The war situation in Alaska is serious but not alarming. . . . The military plan is to pulverize Kiska out of commission or take it before winter...
Last week this new advantage was exploited. A Flying Fortress made an observation flight over Wake, cruising back & forth over the island taking pictures. At about the same time as the Solomon Islands attack, U.S. surface ships moved in and bombarded Jap vessels and shore installations at Kiska. When the attack came in the South Pacific the Jap obviously could not be sure what to expect...
...whole show. He did it with the approval and the help of his superior, Admiral Chester William Nimitz of Pearl Harbor, command hero of Midway, who had the disposal of the whole Pacific Fleet and was able to dispatch the force that mixed up the Jap in Kiska...