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Battle in Streets (Parker) – 2-3
Wiesbaden Target (MacDonald) – 3-4
Latest Submarine Toll Gives Us Bag of 107 for War – 4
China ‘Gets Tough’ in Financing War – 4
It’s Never Dull on Guadalcanal (Durdin) – 5
Trapped Foe Fired Rifles at U.S. Tanks (Miller) – 6
Our Fliers Pound New Guinea Base – 7
War News Summarized – 7
Navy Casualties Listed for 7 Days – 9
Survivors of Aircraft Carrier Yorktown in Honolulu (photo) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-12

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/sep42/f18sep42.htm

American reinforce Guadalcanal
Friday, September 18, 1942 www.onwar.com

US Marine reinforcements arrive on Guadalcanal [photo at link]

In the Solomon Islands... On Guadalcanal, six transports arrive bringing supplies and the US 7th Marine Regiment. The American base now has 23,000 men and adequate supplies.

In New Guinea... Japanese General Horii, in response to orders and supply difficulties begins to pull back some of his forces around Buna and Gona.

On Madagascar... The British land troops on the east coast of the French governed island at Tamatave.