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Hong Kong, Manila, Formosa, Truk, rear bases in Japan proper. In the air, they have a string of airfields from Manchukuo, through China, down the Indo-China and Thailand promontory, along the Malaysian chain to Borneo, the Celebes, New Guinea and the Solomons...
Among the department's 1,500 reference maps, charts and photographs are some from the U.S. Hydrographic Office that show Truk and Guadalcanal in such detail that coral reefs and buildings as small as Chapin's office are visible-and a set of very detailed Admiralty charts of the French, Spanish and Italian coasts that Chapin dug up in anticipation of an Allied invasion practically anywhere. This week's TIME map of Tunisia was based on the French automobile blue book and the very hard-to-come-by Atlas des Colonies Francaises...
...past is black, and the future scarcely brighter. Ahead lies the overwhelming task of invading the continent of Europe. We still must take Tunis and Bizerte to make our African venture reap the profits for which it was designed. Japanese island forts like Truk must be cleaned out, all we have lost must be regained, and a method of defeating the Nipponese must be devised. The Russians and Chinese must benefit from a flow of supplies from the American cornucopia. In the nation, "black markets," devastating crimps in production, and on a more lasting scale the uisheartening defeats of democracy...
Battle of the Eastern Solomons. On Aug. 24-25, a large Japanese striking force approached Guadalcanal from the direction of Truk, to the north. It was met by U.S. carrier forces, which damaged one battleship, several cruisers, two carriers, one destroyer, one transport, four "additional ships...
White Ants. By controlling the lower Solomons, the U.S. forces: 1) protected supply lines to Australia; 2) threatened the Jap naval system centered at Truk Island (TIME, Aug. 31); 3) poised for the recapture of more Jap-held territory. Jap strategy demanded that the U.S. be dislodged. The dislodging was not simple. U.S. marines shot Jap snipers out of trees, cursed the islands' hordes of white ants, doggedly and efficiently cleaned out nests of resistance (see p. 57). For five days in succession the Japs sent over bombing planes. On one of the first raids Marine Corps pilots...