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This new technique has permitted the MARCH OF TIME to bring you the voices of some of our TIME & LIFE correspondents like Hart Preston (in Ankara), Harry Zinder (in Cairo), Steve Laird (in London), Holland McCombs (in Rio), Bob Sherrod and Teddy White (in Australia), Felix Belair (in Washington) and 14 others who spoke from all sorts of unexpected places. And several times our editors (like Military Expert Roy Alexander, or Foreign News Editor Wilder Hobson) have gone on the air as news commentators to give you their expert judgment on some important development...
TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who recently made a tour of several islands, last week wrote about life in the Pacific...
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...
...Sherrod had been with TIME seven years before we sent him to Australia - first as a roving reporter in the Middle West, then as political reporter in our Washington Bureau, later as a military correspondent covering the Army camps. He liked his job at home fine until America got into the war. Now all he wants is to get back to the front...