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Last week Washington announced the toll of Japanese ships in the Navy's merciless, little-publicized submarine campaign: sunk, 98; probably sunk, 22; damaged, 28. Like the beaches of the U.S. Atlantic coast, the neat white beaches of Japan were getting sprinkled with wreckage and soiled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: A Day at the Races | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...commanding the wartime Navy. Few men in peace or war have known "Rey" King well enough to find the warm self behind his hard, hazel eyes. Well does he know that others in the Navy hold him to be a brutal and forthright man, savage in his judgments and merciless in his expression of them, uncompromising and often extreme in his demands upon his subordinates, a man who can be as forbidding in family crises as he is on a bridge or at a Navy desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: One Year of War | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...protected by antiaircraft, and the strafers flew so low that survivors said they could see the Japs' faces. Five Americans and 20 Australians, including two doctors, lost their lives. Until the last Jap had been pushed back to the sea, the going would be tough, bloody, merciless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Slow and Merciless | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...been in a ball game," gasped eleven weary Green men as they emerged from their iron lungs this morning. Victims of a merciless 23-2 shellacking at the hands of a stellar group of CRIMSON pigskin-toters, the footsore Indians reached blindly for the first bottled objects that came their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daily Dartmouth Goes Under By Poonish Score, 23 to 2 | 10/17/1942 | See Source »

Died. George Warwick McClintic, 76, retired U.S. district judge; in Charleston, W.Va. Famed in the Prohibition era for his merciless punishment of Dry law violators, he sent more than 7,000 violators to jail, in one four-year period gathered in some half-million dollars in fines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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