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...there were 65 between Timor and Munda. For some time they had been moving troops to a maze of forward garrisons, until there were seven to ten divisions in line. Some of these were good troops: one division had fought several months in China against the Communist Chu Teh, another had fought through Burma, another through Malaya. For some time a pool of perhaps 250-300 aircraft had been gradually building up at Rabaul, a reserve pool and a Zero assembly plant at Kavieng. Wewak on New Guinea had been developed into an advance base, now that the Lae-Salamaua...
...certain extent, the heads of the College could not help but expect this during the year. In December 1941, they were handed a program by teh War Department, based on a half-hearted attempt at conversion to war footing, with loose ends dangling, loop holes rather than concrete planning emphasized, and confusion, almost to the point of chaos as the inevitable aftermath. And they wee diligently instructed to guide the students in this program...
Approval of this procedure came from such airmen as China's dapper Major General Shen Teh-hsieh, commander of Chinese "Thunderbirds" now training in Arizona. He also reported that, in order to bomb Japan and nearby shipping lanes, China now had the airfields, ground crews and pilots, needed only planes...
Yesterday's final session didn't help him out much. The players that everybody else in Boston considers the first team saw almost no action and a few of the scrubs turned in such good performances that they are sure to be in fighting for starting posts in teh fall...
There was 58-year-old G. Pilhofer, learned in many of New Guinea's 300 native dialects, who had written many schoolbooks and translated the New Testament into Kate (pronounced Kah-teh), the hill natives' language which Finschhafen had adopted. There was brave, 63-year-old Rev. Stephan Lehner, who first brought God's word to the Laewomba cannibals in the Markham Valley. He won them by hanging cloth, paring knives and tobacco on a dead tree by a river-in native sign language, a surety that he was their friend...