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...shot the third at point blank range; Private Paul Reynolds, from behind a big rock, chopped down the last three with deft bursts from his Browning automatic rifle. Passarelli and Boaz had knocked their man cold; Mohl subdued his with a pistol butt. Back at an American outpost they radioed headquarters: "Mission accomplished, patrol returning." Sole U.S. casualty: Lieut. Mohl. His Jap had bitten him on the hand...
...tacked the coastal base of Madang. U.S. troops on New Britain had widened their beachhead and Douglas MacArthur's planes steadily attacked the Admiralty Islands, through which Japan fed the axial base at Rabaul. From new bases in the northern Solomons U.S. planes battered that once-great Jap outpost, destroyed more than 400 Jap planes. Announced U.S. losses: 60 planes...
Progressive education's most famous outpost, little Black Mountain College (TIME, June 19, 1939) in North Carolina's Craggy Mountains, is now ten years old. Of its founders there remained on the spot last week only a dog, a housekeeper, a librarian and three professors. But they, their associates and 57 students (now mostly girls) buzzing about the sleek, modernistic study hall and the small outlying dormitories were continuing to make Black Mountain one of the most unorthodox and interesting of U.S. educational institutions...
Into the Jungle. One night, early in the Empress Augusta Bay operation, Sergeant Azine's company slipped into the jungle to hold a "road-block," an outpost guarding the approach to the Marines' beachhead. Miasmal swamp and forest hemmed the area. Most of the company bivouacked smack on the trail. Flank units took position in the jungle; they alone might use firearms, because they alone could shoot without danger of hitting their comrades. Marines on the trail were limited to knives, entrenching tools, fists, or any weapon that would do a job silently...
...Popular Front Government which came to power in February 1936 did not dare keep Franco in Madrid, but assigned him a responsible outpost command, the Canary Islands. He soon began plotting with other generals; as his part of the July revolt, flew to Morocco to take charge of the rebel troops there. Franco expected the whole show to be over in a week or ten days, scarcely dreamed of becoming the top leader...