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TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod flew in from Australia last week, covering the 10,000 miles from Sydney in seven days by plane...
Before he left home last winter on the first big troop convoy, Sherrod had to tell his wife there was a good chance he would be taken prisoner just as our correspondents Carl and Shelley Mydans had been before him. He wasn't captured-but lots of other things happened...
...there was an eye-opener for anyone who had watched a generation grow up in pacifist isolation" is the nearest he came to putting it in words. "Neither Americans nor any other people pay the ultimate sacrifice by diving their planes into aircraft carriers unless they believe in something." Sherrod got to Australia in its darkest hour, when most of the Anzac troops were still 7,000 miles away fighting in the Middle East, when U.S. aid was hardly more than a promise and the Japs were expected to sweep south from Java at any minute. He left just when...
With so many other correspondents at hand and with no daily newspaper deadlines to hold him close to the cable office, Sherrod was able to cover more ground and see more people in places where the news was happening than any other war correspondent in the Antipodes. He flew more than 40,000 miles, hedge-hopped from camp to camp and from city to city, lived the life of an Army officer in dozens of dusty airports, flew to the front with American pilots, heard from their own lips their stories of combat as they stepped from bullet-scarred planes...
...Sherrod was in Melbourne when Douglas MacArthur got there from Bataan. He talked war plans in Canberra with Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin and most of the Cabinet. He was in battered Pont Moresby for its 73rd bombing-reported the American troops there positively reeked of good health on their diet of canned food and quinine, but there was not even a native woman within miles of the place. Early in May he stationed himself at a secret air base in northeast Australia from which Allied bombers were pounding the Japs to the north. He had his reward...