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Since Pearl Harbor TIME'S correspondents and editors have traveled overseas (see map) on everything from top-speed troop transports to six-knot tankers (some have even gone by munitions boat)-but whenever possible the government tries to grant our request for plane priority. Flying time is remarkably fast in these wartime days. Duncan Norton-Taylor left Australia Tuesday morning, crossed the international date line, reached San Francisco early Thursday. And when Edward Lockett flew in from London last week he had lunch in Scotland-dinner in Iceland -breakfast in New York...
...unexpected move bypassed Jap-held Bairoko Harbor, Vila airfield and lesser positions in such jungle islands as Gizo. Vella Lavella was important as bait. The Jap bit. He tried almost immediately to land reinforcements on Vella Lavella and came down in 20-to-30 troop-carrying barges escorted by four destroyers. U.S. warships struck. One Jap destroyer was probably sunk, another damaged and a third hit. Most of the barges were sunk. Although an estimated 300 Japs managed to get ashore, some 1,000 perished...
...instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy was watched by 4,000, including wives of the victims...
...Hope. The Germans seemed to know as much. Unable to hold all of Italy, they feebly hoped that Mussolini's successors might be able to prevent the use of Italian air, naval and troop bases for continental attack. The Allies, determined to have these bases, warned Italians that all-out air raids were near, and precipitated a mass exodus from Italian cities. Spanish Fascists in Berlin, newspaper correspondents who until lately had written of coming German offensives, cabled Madrid newspapers that the Germans were now in extrema defensa (a last stand)-and that Nazi militarists now talked...
Almost to a man, the top troop commanders of the Seventh were officers who had come to Chief of Staff General George Marshall's attention when he was the First Army's chief of operations in 1918. They had impressed him then; he had kept them in mind for future jobs...