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...Pretty Susan Tate used to live in Washington, D.C. Now she is attached to the Moresby Hospital in New Guinea, is used to being proposed to three times a week. Her job is less adventuresome than Montgomery's-to cheer the wounded, write letters home, fulfill odd requests. One request: to cable $65.50 worth of unbroken I love you I love you I love you's to a soldier's girl back in the States...
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA-- The Bismarck Sea ran red with Japanese blood tonight and the wreckage of Japanese ships and planes were strewn from New Britain to the coast of New Guinea as Allied bombers completed wiping out a 22-ship convey in the most decisive beating ever given the Japanese at sea in this theatre of operations...
...Army patrol pilot operating out of New Guinea saw a torpedo from the Argonaut hit a Jap destroyer with a Rabaul-bound convoy. Other destroyers dropped depth charges. Argonaut porpoised, broke the surface at a sharp angle, was shelled in that helpless position till she sank...
From the banks of the Charles River, they report to battle fronts far flung in this global warfare. These officers collect statistics on the firing line. Three casualties from graduates of the first class have been reported, two killed in New Guinea and one in North Africa...
...Salamaua early in 1942, an Australian garrison fell back to the Wau area, and held it all through the year, even after the Japs moved to Buna. Fortnight ago, when Jap patrols infiltrated to Wau, as they have infiltrated many areas even on the south coast of New Guinea, the Allies flew reinforcements to the little Wau field -which had suddenly become more valuable than the gold it was built to carry out. The Jap patrols were pushed back...