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...Australia's northern perimeter of islands the Japanese had to take more than they dished out last week. Allied bombs ripped ships and men in the harbors of New Guinea and New Britain. Bombs tore runways, wrecked hangars and aircraft on invasion airdromes of New Guinea and Timor. Said a spokesman in Melbourne: "We are trying to keep the Japanese from stabilizing their position. . . . If we had a little more equipment, we could...
...tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from an old World War I tank. A hand grenade and booby trap were manufactured on the spot from the same pick-up materials...
After a swipe at "the skillful work" Washington did for the auto industry in publicizing its curtailment plans ("a cash value of hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased sales") Editor Elhart tore into the subject of fabric conservation. He wrote...
...many a Chinese soldier knows, the Japanese shells that tore his body were made from U.S. scrap iron. Last week the circle was complete: silk that had gone from Japan to the U.S. was going to China, to be used as bandages. The silk, too, was a kind of scrap: old silk stockings...
Moulmein fell. Sweat-wet, bare-backed British artillerymen fired point-blank into the advancing Japanese, piled them in shredded heaps. U.S. volunteer pilots strafed them. British bayonets stabbed them. Riflemen and machine-gunners tore their advancing ranks on the open flats before the city. But the Japs came on. From Moulmein they drove the outnumbered, outgunned British across the broad Salween River. There, behind the river barrier, the British took their stand between the Japanese and the prize they were fighting for: mastery of strategic Rangoon, of the Burma Road to China, of the invasion road to India...