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...that a letter which you published recently [TIME, May 3] from John B. Woodward Jr., on duty presumably with the Army in New Guinea, has not received the attention it deserves. The soldier is thinking. . . . Servicemen believe they must have a greater part in plotting the course of world affairs than our present systems intend to afford them. They do not acknowledge equality of sacrifice between civilians and men who have died or risked death in combat...
This is the second time Sherrod has gone off to the wars for TIME: a year ago he spent six critical months in Australia and New Guinea with General MacArthur...
...only "front line" left in the Southwest Pacific war is in the New Guinea jungle, where small handfuls of garrisoning Allied troops continue a gradual encroachment on Jap outposts. Most advanced of these outposts is the native village of Mubo, which straddles the only practicable land route to Salamaua and Lae. Near by, on Lababia ridge, Allied patrols have established some of the fixed positions gained in weeks of skirmishing...
Over the weekend Jap losses mounted. Raiding Darwin, they lost 12 planes destroyed, 12 damaged. Next day they sent 36 Zeros to attack Lae, New Guinea, were met by U.S. Lightnings. Result: 14 Zeros shot down, 9 more set afire...
...muleback trip from Buna or Lae to the base hospital at Port Moresby. But Army hospital planes made it in 45 minutes, evacuated 17,000 men during the recent campaign. Since their organization last December,* the Air Forces' Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadrons have moved in New Guinea and Tunisia, or lugged to the U.S. from the Southwest Pacific, Alaska, Africa or India, or shuttled around the U.S. 50,000 ill and wounded men. Only two deaths have occurred in flight. Creator of the system: the A.A.F.'s air surgeon, Brigadier General David N. W. Grant...