Word: sherrod
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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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...
From TIME'S Correspondent Robert Sherrod last week came a fresh picture of U.S. Army life in New Guinea...
...CABLED DISPATCH OF ROBERT SHERROD (TIME, APRIL 6) HAS STIRRED ME DEEPLY AND I WISH TO EXPRESS MY PROFOUND GRATITUDE. YOU MAY BE CERTAIN THAT MY FEELINGS ARE SHARED BY ALL NETHERLANDERS, NOT IN THE LEAST BECAUSE SHERROD HAS SO WELL RENDERED WHAT LIVES...