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CAIRO -- British Imperial troops smashing an Axis delaying action in a three-day battle, streamed through Agedabia tonight toward El Aghelis, 70 miles to the southwest, while American and British planes teamed in a day-and-night assault on the enemy reinforcement route to North Africa...
...Solomons, where individual fighting by U.S. troops has been more desperate than in any other spot, there were happenings to make the national pulse race. For days the Navy had merely hinted at what might be a final showdown. The U.S. people kept their fingers crossed. The three-day battle over, the Navy released its jubilant communiqu...
Where these five were in addition to the 11 warships and 12 auxiliaries originally reported sunk in the three-day battle remained to be clarified, but a Navy spokesman said...
...University, public-relations officer on Guadalcanal, continued the history of the battle, which he is writing in Oxford-Marine-four-letter-word language. He would have been interested in some notes made by the Chicago Sun's John Graham Dowling, 29, son of Actor Eddie Dowling, during the three-day bombardment that preceded the correspondents' recent removal...
Such was the gist of a three-day powwow held last week by the 61-year-old American Transit Association. In Chicago's famed Palmer House, some 800 transit men heard enough criticism, ominous prediction and plain bad news to make most of them sorry they ever made the trip...