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Most military men are given to understatement, but not many have written as modestly as this. The author of the terse sentence was Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, Commander of the Marines in the Solomons, and he certainly had been busy. At 55, he had been climbing up & down cargo nets like a 25-year-old. He had lowered his high rank into damp foxholes. He had eaten captured Jap rice for want of anything better. Like his men, he had slapped anopheles mosquitoes, swum naked in the Lunga River...
...Archer Vandegrift was still busy this week, and the eyes of much of the world focused on his business. To most outsiders, his Solomon Islands battle has grown from an interesting little adventure in offense into a clash which may vitally affect the whole war. For the Japanese are now committed to trying to retake what he took from them. The U.S. is equally committed to holding on, and eventually taking more...
...therefore, Archer Vande-grift's tiny patch of warfare is destiny. It can mean the difference between vigorous offense and weary defense in the Pacific, perhaps between beating the Japs in two years...
...find its way through the ironbound Navy censorship. The Marines still held what they had taken, but they would need still more reinforcements and ample supplies if the slender thread of their strength was to endure. Nobody knew this better than their 55-year-old commander, Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift. Despite destruction of 42 Japanese planes, without U.S. loss, and damage to enemy ships, he was in a tight spot. Aware of this fact, Admirals Ghormley and Nimitz, this week were conferring "somewhere in the Pacific" with Air Forces General Arnold...
...proponent of melodrama in the local room, City Editor Shaw (a graduate summa cum laude of Oberlin, and son of the Plain Dealer's longtime chief editorial writer Archer Shaw) gags when he hears about The Front Page brand of city editor. He made his reputation as a City Hall reporter who had a great knack for making interesting sense of municipal affairs...