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...Burma, China. More important than the rubber, oil, tin, platinum, coffee, quinine which the Jap's conquests brought him was his occupation of key points. A little farther and he could cut off the U.S. from all routes to the eastern battlefront except around Australia. But now the westernmost prong of the Japanese attack, in and around New Guinea, threatened even the U.S. route to Australia and raised yet another rampart across the Americas' Pacific routes...
...clamping down a tight censorship of news and photographs the eight westernmost states and Alaska last fortnight were officially made a "Theater of Operations." All news and photographs of troops, their identity, location, number, individual names was forbidden except with official sanction. The Navy next issued a strong warning "To the Public" with subheads reading: THIS IS A MODERN WAR-THIS IS A TOTAL WAR-THIS IS A HARSH WAR. It warned citizens not to discuss ships, sailors, weapons, casualties, ship damage or defense production. Still more drastically, Army and Navy on the West Coast began censoring domestic telegrams...
From Seattle they took a steamer to Nome. There they bought prospectors' packs and hiked ten days across the tundra to Cape Prince of Wales, westernmost tip of North America. For $20 an Eskimo boatman in a 30-ft. skin boat with an outboard motor took them across the 20-mile strip of water to Little Diomede Island, last outpost of the U. S. in Bering Strait. For $5 another boatman set them down on Russia's Big Diomede Island, two miles away...
...week and so did heavy suspense. A Christmas "truce" was observed by the Luftwaffe, but the quiet was ominous. The most terrific military force in the world, the German Army, had been idle for six months and on Christmas Eve its commander, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, visited its westernmost camps on the Channel coast. At Cap Gris Nez, near the long-range guns which sporadically hurl shells into England, he told his men: "The Channel will protect England only so long as it suits us." Führer Hitler was also at the Western Front during the holiday lull...
...Gabon lie the Cameroons (French), Nigeria (British), Dahomey and Togo (French mandate), the Gold Coast (British), the Ivory Coast (French), Liberia (free), Sierra Leone (British), French Guinea, Gambia (British, with the harbor of Bathurst) and Sénégal (with Dakar, the French base on Africa's westernmost shoulder-point). Gabon is about equidistant (2,000 mi.) from Dakar and Cape Town...