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This morning enemy aircraft dropped bombs at several .places in southeastern and southern England, causing a number of casualties and some damage.-London Communiqué, Sept...
Guinea toward Port Moresby, key to Australia. The third was moving down the southern Gilberts, possibly toward the Fijis. Wrote Correspondent Baldwin: "The American-held portion of the southeastern Solomons stood like a bastion in the path of these enemy operations...
...Roots is exciting as history and as a story. The little-known history it highlights is the rise and bloody fall of the Free State of Jones (novelized as Lebanon), a county in southeastern Mississippi which seceded from Mississippi soon after Mississippi seceded from the Union. Like many Southerners, most of Lebanon's inhabitants were mild but firm abolitionists. Lebanon's leaders despised Jefferson Davis, the big planters, the innumerable fire-eating lawyers, preachers, sword-rattlers and politicians who helped make secession and war inevitable...
...little Japs were under cover of Aleutian fog, and probably building air and submarine bases, emplacing anti-aircraft guns, sneaking in shells, bombs and torpedoes. Apparently anticipating a Japanese move east to Atka Island and northeast to the Pribilof Islands, the Army announced the evacuation of 550 natives to southeastern Alaska...
Inside a modest brick house at 2374 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D.C., is a lot of very useful military information-but no U.S. military man knows much about it. On the walls inside hang military maps, showing in detail the dispositions of Japanese troops in China and all southeastern Asia. On chairs inside sit several men whose heads are crammed with information about the Japanese Army, how it operates and how it fights...