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...since the Nazis stood on Moscow's threshold last October had the city been so preoccupied with war. At newspaper kiosks Muscovites waited for each edition, pored over the communiques without moving on. Loudspeakers blared news from street corners. In nearly every home a map was spread out each evening while housewives explained communiques to their children. Everyone knew that these were the war's gravest hours. People talked little about war or peace aims beyond beating the Nazis...
...write this story, in this cave that is our operations room, a red arrow on the map indicates that Jap planes are bombing the town of Kao-yao, 40 miles outside of Canton. Evidently they are so mad at being caught by us that they are taking it out on the helpless Chinese villages...
...blow was struck up from Down Under at the exotic Melanesian land of the Solomon Islands, a fringe of volcanic peaks strung for 600 miles across the northern end of the Coral Sea, 900 miles from Australia's coast (see map). It was no mere raid. It was an attack in force. The Navy was out to take the Solomons from the Jap-and with them the threat they held to the supply line from the U.S. to Australia, and to Australia itself...
...when Ghormley's force had its first contact with the Japs, the Army was raiding Rabaul in New Britain, probably the Jap's strongest position east of Amboina. And up at the top of the Solomons they came in by night on Buka (see map), opening their bomb gates on airdromes and parked Jap planes. Meanwhile Ghormley moved...
...trudged in only a week before go 4,000 feet aloft in a twin-engine bombardier-trainer plane, drop a stick of bombs smack in the center of a 100-ft. circle. He saw San Antonio's student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...