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...noisiest weekend in Rabaul since 1943, when U.S. bombers flattened the South Pacific town. Seemingly bent on the same sort of destruction, rival tribesmen swarmed into the two-acre market square, wrecked the open-air benches piled with produce, belted one another, battered police cars, beat up the native constabulary and shoved a fire engine over a four-foot bank. It all began when, in the midst of a jostling market crowd, a Sepik tribesman pinched the stern of a shapely Tolai tribeswoman...
...about World War II that was not a tale of defeat, I-58 sold 100,000 copies, has been followed by a spate of similar war books as well as a monthly magazine called Maru. Almost entirely devoted to eyewitness accounts of World War II actions, e.g., "Dogfight over Rabaul." Maru has become the bible of many a Japanese teenager. Wrote one young reader: "I felt an inexplicable satisfaction when I learned from your splendid magazine that although Japan was ultimately defeated, the armed forces were absolutely dominant in individual battles...
...friend, the late Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, is credited by the Japanese with over 100. Nothing to prove it, of course.* Figures aside, Pilot Sakai was quite a flyer. During the Guadalcanal campaign he was put out of action when he jumped four Avenger torpedo planes, barely made it back to Rabaul. He lost an eye in the battle, and his description of how he was operated on without anesthesia is bloodcurdling. Sakai fought again, but soon learned that a half-blind fighter pilot in an outdated Zero was no match for the new planes and pilots pouring from...
Burke's speed placed him athwart the Buka-Rabaul neck of the Solomon Sea nearly two hours ahead of schedule-but none too soon to intercept the two Japanese destroyers, themselves far ahead of intelligence estimates, that soon bore into range. Burke launched his attack with a memorable order: "Hold your hats, boys; here we go." His destroyers headed for the enemy at flank speed, launched their torpedoes, turned hard to starboard. Both Japanese ships exploded, and Burke wheeled to face three more enemy destroyers just arriving. The newcomers saw what had happened and decided to depart -hastily. They...
Anti-Japanese feeling dies hard in Australia. Last week, a decade after Tojo's men were driven out of islands adjacent to the southern continent, Australians were excited anew about the "Yellow Peril." Into Rabaul Harbor came a Japanese pearling ship, its crew battened below decks, its captain a captive of Australian Planter Ray Stacey, who, with the aid of native islanders, had seized the vessel at the Feni Islands, 80 miles to the southeast. Australia accused the Japanese of violating immigration laws, but the real charge was poaching pearl shell beds in waters which the Australians insist they...