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...Jane. By last week 1,170 WACs, dubbed "G.L Janes" in the European Theater of Operations, were undergoing these rigors. Most of them were at General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters and Eighth Air Force stations, where they plotted, teleprinted, operated switchboards, made maps, assessed combat films, "sweated out" missions in flight control rooms...
...week's beginning Marine Major Gregory Boyington (TIME, Jan. 10) got his 26th Jap plane in aerial combat, tied the American records of Eddie Rickenbacker and Marine Joe Foss. But the mark is still to be broken...
...Albuquerque Tribune, Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman). Born in September 1940, as the "first [Army] paper of the national emergency," the News has gone along with its outfit through half a dozen U.S. camps and into Mediterranean battles. It has also done a notable job of covering the 45th in combat...
...Allport, a psychological expert on foreign propaganda, will present a program prescribed for the State of Massachusetts which would combat the current race problem...
This strange confession was made Dec. 10 by a U.S. Marine who had been to Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Tulagi, Bougainville. He was Combat Correspondent Sergeant Roy Maypole, 29, onetime radio soap-opera impresario. He spoke too soon. When the Marines landed on Bougainville's Empress Augusta Bay, Sergeant Maypole heard some shooting and saw some Japs...