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The week's fighting, as summarized by Navy communiqués, was practically continuous. First off some Marine planes damaged two cruisers while others bombed anti-aircraft installations and strafed seaplanes at the enemy's Rekata Bay, 115 miles north of Guadalcanal. The Jap came back at Henderson...
Work on the bases has already begun. Building an airfield on the rough terrain would be a major engineering job, but there are sheltered coves for seaplanes, good anchorages for ships. The workers and sailors will have to import water; on Albermarle, which has almost no fresh water, the ranchers...
Corporación now flies three broken-down Italian Macchi seaplanes over 850 route miles. But it has dreams of much bigger things, is dickering for more equipment and a route to Rio. Meantime the arrival of a Spanish mission in Buenos Aires started the jolting rumor that Corporacion is...
> Marines were still killing Japs in the Solomons (see col. 1) when a smaller Marine detachment raided tiny Makin Island, 1,250 miles northeast of Tulagi. Under tall, battle-hardened Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson and his second-in-command, Major James Roosevelt, they killed at least 80 Japs, destroyed...
> The offensive was behind schedule, but it was not failing. It was going bloodily and slowly. On the eleventh day the Navy announced that the invaders completely surprised the Japs in the first landings, took some prisoners, destroyed 18 seaplanes at their moorings. But after eleven days the Marines were...