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...little over 24 hours. As on Betio, the Japs who still lived crawled back at night into pillboxes filled with their own dead. The pillboxes had to be cleaned out again with flamethrowers, blocks of TNT and rocket guns. Namur, separated from Roi by a 200-yd. causeway, was the Japs' last retreat from the Marines...
...this statistical study, the Causeway Street office found 88 per cent of the lady officers were brunette, leaving eight little blondes, three red-heads, and only one black-head in the lot. Although they can be as tall as 6 feet and as short as 5 feet to get in, most were under 5 feet, 6 inches, and above 5 feet, 1 inch...
This was the second African stronghold one of our TIME & LIFE News Bureau men stumbled into ahead of the Army. Two years ago (eight months before Pearl Harbor) George Rodger strolled out the causeway to Massaua, the last seaport held by the Italians in Eritrea, was escorted to the Italian general's headquarters, found to his amazement that the Italians were still looking for someone to surrender to. He had dinner that night with the Italian commander, was on the friendliest of terms with the vanquished before the surrender ceremonies next...
Like a giant causeway over the wastes of the North Pacific, the Aleutians stretch about 1,000 miles from the Alaskan mainland (see map). On to windswept, fog-washed Attu at their western tip, American troops swarmed last week...
Candidates for SV-7 must follow the procedure as previously established for V-1 and V-7. Application should be made at Little Hall where thorough screening will take place before the applications are sent in to 150 Causeway Street...