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Strictly according to plan, the path of invasion had been smoothed by ferocious air bombardment of Sicily's airdromes, ports and supply lines. The real pounding had started on June 11, the very day that the outpost island Pantelleria went groggy and collapsed under the rain of bombs. It had gone on in a sonorous crescendo, rising to a peak in the final week when the big Axis air base at Gerbini caught 20 full-scale raids in one day, and targets were so much in demand that American Liberators politely timed their arrival overhead for the exact moment...
...following are the prize billets awarded to our prize boys. Don Lindow (No. 1 boy) goes to our prize boys. Don Lindow (No. 1 boy) goes to C.B. outpost on Woodie Island of the Gilbert Group as BuPers sought to satiate his life-long ambition of seeing the strange Raffiesia, the largest flower known, extending one meter in diameter. Don will be in a botanical paradise, 1500 miles from no where--what more can a man ask for these days...
Remnants of Attu's Jap defenders were herded this week into three tiny pockets of bitter-end resistance on the northeast tip of the Aleutian outpost. Because most of them would probably choose death to surrender, several days of mopping-up operations were in prospect; but U.S. troops, in less than two weeks of fighting, had won their most important victory in the Pacific since Guadalcanal...
Beyond the Outpost. As has been true on every other Pacific front, the Japs were cool fighters. But with Attu firmly in the U.S. grasp, Kiska gravely threatened and the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri only 750 miles beyond the westernmost U.S. outpost, signs of nervousness began to appear in Tokyo. Blustered the Jap, in an official broadcast: "If in the future Russia ever puts her Siberian bases at the disposal of the U.S., the Japanese Army will resort to a blitzkrieg that will deal upon her the heaviest blows Russia has ever known...
...lonely China outpost, TIME Correspondent Teddy White, waiting for a plane to take him back to his base, found English-speaking company and a place to loaf in a U.S. Army radio station. He also saw an unfamiliar side of service life, typed out his description on the spot...