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...reading the story you had in your magazine about wood ticks. I felt so sorry for the guinea pig and bunny. Why don't science use Japs to experiment on? Why should it pick on the poor animals...
...Solomon Islands 750 Japanese were trapped, then "massacred" by tanks which ground hundreds of the bodies into the rubble and splinter of a coconut grove. At Milne Bay in New Guinea 120 Japanese were "slaughtered" by U.S. and Australian troops slugging it out for a vital airfield. Far north at Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians, U.S. bombers and escorting fighters flushed land troops and "mowed 'em down like straws." These were actions that the Japanese, fighting just as desperately, could respect. They could also understand the U.S. strategy of kill-or-be-killed...
Green Snakes. In the South Pacific, the fight for control of Port Moresby in New Guinea unfolded like an old newsreel of the disastrous Malay and Burma campaigns. With their faces painted green and in green uniforms, Japanese troops moved over the "impenetrable" Owen Stanley mountains. In the great equatorial-rain forests' "battle of lungs" the Japs had the advantage against Australian troops (accustomed to a dry desert climate). Wearily the Australians and some U.S. service troops (engineers, etc.) prepared for a last-ditch stand. The fighting was so fierce that "no prisoners have been taken yet." Australians said...
Home-guard guerrillas were organized in Australia as the Japs, advancing in New Guinea, advanced also toward the Australian mainland. Everybody in Australia knew that MacArthur's planes were too few, their crews overworked; that Australia invaded would be in dire straits. In New Zealand, Prime Minister Peter Eraser, just home from the U.S., broadcast: "We shall have to steel ourselves for the next twelve months. . . . It's not enough simply to hold the enemy. The United Nations must advance...
...sailing in the South Pacific, H.M.S. Rattlesnake touched at New Guinea. Her commander: Captain Owen Stanley...