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Marines' Homecoming. By week's end the peninsula battle was finished. Orote airfield, the Sumay base of Pan American Airways and pre-Pearl Harbor Marine Barracks were in U.S. hands. Crack fighters of the ist Marine Provisional Brigade (veterans of Edson's ist Raider Battalion, Carlson's 2nd and Liversedge's 3rd) had still to clean out snipers in the jungle around the airfield...
Born. To the late, great Raider Orde Charles Wingate, 41, bush-bearded jungle general, killed in a Burma plane crash (TIME, April 10); and Lorna Wingate, 26, his beauteous, Scottish-born widow: their first child, a son; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...could do for the men battling around him was to record for all time a true picture of how they dared and died. All through the first day on that "island of 5,000 dead" he expected he too would soon be one of those to die-and Raider Chief Evans Carlson wrote us later to express his "very genuine admiration" for Sherrod's "courage, fortitude and superb aplomb...
Mary Patricia Chalifoux went to Montreal with her two children to begin a vigil. Her husband, Dieppe-Raider D'Amour Chalifoux, is in a Nazi prison camp...
Victory & Defeat. That policy brought one disaster when the Prince of Wales and Repulse sought a surface battle and ran instead into crushing Japanese air power. It brought a rueful success when the unarmored merchant cruiser Jervis Bay tackled a heavy raider force and went down with her guns blazing, saving a convoy by her sacrifice. But it paid off richly in the destruction of the Graf Spee, paid off again in the trapping and sinking of the Bismarck, paid off in every engagement with the hapless Italian Fleet, paid off in the timely sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst (TIME...