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...battlefront was opened by the Axis last week. Its most active sector was the Caribbean. Its offensive weapon (to date) was the submarine. Its objective was to cut off the United Nations from a major source of high-octane aviation...
Singapore was the key. So long as Singapore had been in British hands, easy access to the Indian Ocean had been denied Japan. Now, with Singapore taken and Sumatra under fire, the Jap could, if he wished, send his Navy and his Army into the one great sector of the earth which had been exclusively and safely British...
...formed a 'suicide antisniper' unit with 84 volunteers to eliminate 300 enemy snipers who had infiltrated behind the American lines. . . . The unit cleaned up one sector of the sniper area every morning between daybreak and 8:30. They killed at least 250 and also wiped out a number of Japanese machine-gunners with hand grenades...
...Daily consulted with staff chiefs of the United Nations' new G.H.Q. in Washington. To implement G.H.Q. strategy, the U.S. Navy's Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary was placed in command of the combined naval forces in the Australian-New Zealand sector of the ABDA area. Name of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet was changed to "U.S. Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific," and command of it was given to Rear Admiral W. A. Glassford Jr. Both Glassford and Leary will serve under Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander of all United Nations naval forces in the ABDA area...
...instruction in mechanics and first aid on the trip across; when they arrive in Cairo they are ready immediately to join an ambulance unit attached to one of the British Army divisions. While at present all volunteers serve in North Africa, if any of the British divisions in that sector were transferred elsewhere, the ambulance unit which supports it would have to follow...