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...thatched bamboo hut on Papua recently the Allied Papuan Medical Society held its fifth monthly meeting. The assembled U.S., British and Australian doctors listened to learned papers by some of their company on "Aviation Medicine in Combat," "Moral Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs...
Whatever trouble alien Japanese may cause in the U.S., government officials seem relatively calm about most Nisei-American-born U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. At Camp Shelby, Miss, last week an all-Nisei group was training for U.S. Army combat service. More than 1,000 young Nisei were enrolled in about 125 colleges in 37 states, finishing educations interrupted when they were evacuated from the West Coast...
Only battle will prove how good are these 40,000, and only battle will give them the combat polish that marks the full-fledged fighting man. But T.I.S., vastly expanded, vastly speeded up, has worked its pupils into a soldier's mold with an efficiency that has made pedagogues gape. Yale's Dr. James G. Rogers calls it "magnificent." A Harvard Law School professor, after a lifetime studying teaching methods, was unable to suggest an improvement, said it was "perhaps the most important place in America." A graduate, who had degrees from Harvard and Oxford, said: "My education...
...Secretary Henry L. Stimson was moved to issue a formal statement: "... I have made a thorough investigation of all these rumors.* They are completely false. . . . Anything which would interfere with [WAAC] recruiting or destroy the reputation of this corps and, by so doing, interfere with increase in combat strength of our Army, would [aid] the enemy...
...Army wanted more WAACs (500,000 have been requisitioned) to release more men for combat, Congress was considering bills to make them a part of the regular Army, to allow WAVES to serve abroad. The U.S. was discovering, as England cud long ago, that womanpower is essential to the armed forces in total war. O'Donnell's rumormongering was not calculated to speed that discovery...