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...established on an abandoned battlefield which has not yet been cleaned up because rain and mud makes it impossible to burn the place over or carry anything away. Jap corpses still inhabit the pillboxes (which the Australian tanks crushed), and sometimes the rain washes them into view. Humorous, bird-like Surgeon John Lambert of the fifth portable had a dream the other night: he found a Japanese map showing the whole Buna area under water, and he remembers saying, "Gee, the Japs make much better maps than...
...ashore. Little boxes of ice cream were handed to them and they stood around eating it like men dreaming. Someone lowered the Stars & Stripes; someone else pulled a blue ensign up at the bow. But no one touched the ship's accomplishment flag on the periscope-a dodo bird rampant on a black field, with eleven little Jap flags sewn on the margin. At the bottom of the flag were the words: "so SOLLY...
Pilots back from Guadalcanal last week told a tall bird story. A marine, they said, captured a wild parrot and taught it to shout: "Hello, Joe!" as greeting to any Jap. He took the parrot to the front lines, where it shouted the greeting all day. Other parrots, free in the jungle, learned the greeting. Soon the jungle behind the Jap lines resounded with nerve-racking U.S. accents: "Hello, Joe! ... Hello, Joe! . . . Hello...
...squadron's junior officers with tales of his amours, went out on a search one day, tapped out a last message about low gas, and went in. Oran ("Fig") Newton Jr., who had animal nicknames for most of the boys, such as Al Dog for Wright and Red Bird for Wages, was shot out of a dive by A.A. That was all: two pilots. Four enlisted men are missing...
...both in England and here," the Chicago Tribune's publisher, Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, resolved several weeks ago to cease using nobility titles in the Tribune "wherever the use can be avoided. . . . There may be some slips... . Copyreaders may find their work is as tedious as picking bird shot out of a prairie chicken...