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...slowly dwindling Japanese ersatz empire was raided nearly every day by the U.S. Air Forces which rim it-the Fifth and Thirteenth in New Guinea, the Fourteenth in China, the Tenth in India, the Seventh in the Central Pacific and the Eleventh in the Aleutians. But most of the Pacific lay in comparative quiet...
Torbie's squadron was gradually disbanded this year. He himself few back from New Guinea on August 22. His leave lasts until Monday, October 23, when he will report to the Melville, Rhode Island base once again...
Action in New Guinea...
Having gone to the Law School for a year and a half after his graduation, "Torbie joined up when Pearl Harbor was struck. Assigned to a PT squadron, he first got into action at the beginning of the New Guinea campaign, after preliminary training at Melville, Rhode Island, and in the Atlantic...
Several days from Sydney, the skipper was ordered to put in at a New Guinea port. Mrs. Shake told a party of officers who went ashore to be sure and ask around for Lieut. Hugh Fox Shake. They did. Bossing the foundry and machine shop at the port was Hugh Fox Shake...