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Among countless examples of heroism that were recorded last week not the least was that of black-skinned, black-toothed Sergeant Katue, of the Papuan Infantry Battalion, who turned up at a New Guinea base after stalking Japs through the jungles for 73 days and picking off 26 of them, including one in an orange tree...
Very much the worse for his 47-day journey through New Guinea's tangled jungle, Vern Haugland (TIME, Oct. 1) awoke last week from a nine-day delirium, smiled and said: "Tell my mother I've been real sick...
...MacARTHURS'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--The Allies' first big New Guinea offensive has removed immediate threat of Japanses attack upon Port Moresby, last major base north of Australia, observers believed today, and only supply difficulties have slowed it down after 10 days of steady progress. Australian ground forces have reached the peak areas of the Owen Stanley Mountains near the gap leading across trails to the advanced Japanese base at Kokoda...
...MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA--Australian troops, pushing northward through New Guinea without Japanese opposition, Shave penetrated the 6,170-foot high Owen Stanley mountain gap to the point where it drops downhill toward the Japanese base at Kokoda, front dispatches said tonight...
Working on thirty undergraduate guinea pigs, the Psychology Department is conducting a series of experiments trying to determine who can learn the International Morse code, and who can't; under what conditions it's learned best; and whether or not success or failure can be predicated in advance. The thirty guinea pigs are more than willing subjects, for during the ten-week course they'll all attain speeds of close to thirteen words a minute in receiving code, enough to win them their amateur Radio Operators' license...