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...Navy in August 1941, but I did so to join the staff of the American Volunteer Group. . . . My service in the A.V.G. under General Chennault was the hardest and the most interesting work I have ever done. In late November 1941, General Chennault sent me to Manila to negotiate with General MacArthur. ... On my way back to Burma, I was caught in Hong Kong by the outbreak of war. During the fighting there, I placed myself under the command of our military observer, Colonel Reynolds Condon. When the surrender came, Colonel Condon instructed me to burn my A.V.G. papers...
Fisher started with TIME as head of our Manila office, but just three months before the Japs swarmed in to the Philippines we sent him off to start for TIME & LIFE the first permanent news bureau ever opened in India. When he reached New Delhi he found only two other correspondents there-a lady who worked for the Manchester Guardian and an A.P. man who left a few months later. And the U.S. Army was represented by two officers, with whom Fisher had lunch on December...
...long war against Japan. Even if the Japs lost Truk (which they will not until many foot soldiers have lost their lives taking it), or if Truk were bypassed, many bases remained for Admiral Koga's Navy: Singapore, Surabaya in Java, Balikpapan in Borneo, Saipan in the Marianas, Manila and the Japanese homeland bases...
...Australia Douglas MacArthur, whose forces are some 350 miles nearer Manila than Nimitz' carriers, warned that sea blockade and bombardment alone could not defeat Japan. Said he: "The strongest military element of Japan is the army, which must be defeated before our success is assured. This can only be done by the use of large ground forces. . . . [Japan's] outlying islands of the Pacific represent an outpost position, important, it is true, but no longer decisive...
Travels of a Marine. The Smiths have been travelers, like all Marines: they lived in Bremerton, Seattle, Manila, Cavite, Shanghai, Puerta Plata, Norfolk, Newport, Port-au-Prince, Quantico, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Long Beach, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego. In one two-year stretch they moved 14 times...