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Hammer the Hammer. But last week belonged to the airmen. The center of the week's action focused first on a drab sedan which lurched over the pocked and pitted track that winds from Jackson airdrome to Port Moresby. The thick red dust of New Guinea blurred its windows, but not the three white stars on its license plate. Spying the stars, half-naked troops, Australian and American, grinned and threw casual salutes. One of their favorite brass hats was home again: Lieut. General George Churchill Kenney, Commanding General of Allied Air Forces, Southwest Pacific Area, and commander, Fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: For the Honor of God | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...exactly 25 years George Kenney has carried in his fob pocket a small pair of wooden dice. They are the oracle he invariably consults before embarking on momentous projects. In the rocking, dusty sedan he plucked them out at random. They showed six-one, a natural. He faced them toward his aide, able, beady-eyed Captain Clarence "Kip" Chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: For the Honor of God | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...crowed. The drab sedan lurched on toward Moresby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: For the Honor of God | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...Longa. Near Victorville, Calif., a cement truck demolished a sedan, left intact in the wreckage a pamphlet: Accidents Don't Happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1942 | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...Sedan to Casablanca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Sedan to Casablanca | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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