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Battle Report, Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea (Farrar & Rinehart for the Council on Books in Wartime; $3.50) is the result of Karig & Kelley's labors. Published this week on the anniversary of the "day of infamy," Battle Report adds hundreds of details to the public record of the first desperate stage of the Pacific war. At Pearl Harbor...
Quick Start. With Flanders came 29 officers, 735 enlisted men, and 9,000 tons of equipment. Next day, while fighting went on in plain view, survey parties, each including six engineer-riflemen, set out to plot the new field. Within 24 hours they had bulldozed enough coral gravel to fill in 600 shell craters, and the first P47 Thunderbolt fighter landed...
...work went on. Flanders and his men restored a bomb-clogged deep-water well, installed a purification system, built gasoline storage plants. When a bluff stood in the path of one runway, they simply blasted it flat. In all, they reshaped over four million square yards of rock and coral...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a citizen's association, shocked by Florida's juvenile delinquency, has raised $50,000, begun acquiring property for a youth-center memorial. The center will provide teenagers with tennis courts, a softball diamond, library, snack bar, recreation room and a patio for dancing...
Bugs, Crabs, Volcanoes. On Guadalcanal they found the thick, heavy soil covered with high, knife-edged kangaroo grass, had to use bulldozers borrowed from the Seabees before they could even begin to plow. On Kolombangara, in the Solomons, they planted a former Jap airstrip of coral, already well stirred up by bombs. As they moved on again, they met new gardener's curses: land crabs, wild pigs, volcanic ground that was hardly arable, odd varieties of scavenging bugs. But by the time they reached the Marianas, they had met and licked almost all the problems of tropical farming...