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Lieut. Paul Schwartz had only 13 men at his command, but he manipulated them with the tactical care of a field marshal. His patrol in jungle-matted New Guinea was working through to the coast beyond Buna. Near the grass-thatched village of Tarakena a Jap machine gun fired on them. Japs in foxholes and trenches held the village. Young Schwartz, seeing his patrol outnumbered, deployed two men to pin down the machine gun, two others as snipers on the village's sea flank. The remaining nine men and Schwartz charged the village firing. Surprised Japanese, apparently believing themselves...
Said Schwartz: "I didn't have much defense in depth, so I decided we would have to pull out." Score: about 20 Japs killed, many more wounded; U.S. casualties, none. His charge was a minute action, but in the mosaic of New Guinea warfare it was typical of the bitter inch-by-inch, day-by-day battle to throw out the Japs...
TIME Correspondent George Johnston last week cabled this dispatch from New Guinea...
...there were a bottle of beer or a flask of Scotch in the 180,000 square miles of Allied New Guinea, some of the thousands of doughboys now fighting in 98° temperature of the north-coast jungles might be able to build up some sort of festive spirit this Christmas. But there...
...brass-hat morale builders who had wanted him to be a tidily uniformed entertainer. But to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who, since November 1939, have listened in weekly to an Empire broadcast titled Hi, Gang!, the U.S.A.A.F.'s gain was a loss felt from Iceland to New Guinea. For unnumbered U.S. servicemen have also been eager tuners-in to the show which Ben Lyon, his wife Bebe Daniels, and Vic Oliver have put on the air from London...