Jungle Base Falls – 2-3
U.S. Forces Hit Out (Hurd) – 3
Lucky Japanese Bomb Hit Finished This U.S. Plane (photo) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Soviet Reveals Withdrawal from Nalchik in Caucasus (Parker) – 5-6
Axis Force is Held in African Pocket – 6-7
Axis Desert Loss Marked by Ironies (Sedgwick) – 7
U.S. Hold in Solomons Bolstered (Baldwin) * – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 9-10
* [From the article.] The news from Washington and the South Pacific yesterday was encouraging.
It served to emphasize and underscore a remark made to this correspondent on Sept. 19 by Major Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, commanding the Marine, Navy and Army troops and planes on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo in the Southern Solomons.
”Are you going to hold this beachhead, general? Are you going to stay here?” General Vandegrift was asked.
His answer:
”Hell yes; why not?”
In the light of after events, General Vandegrift’s answer was more than rhetoric, more than the bold words of a tough marine; it may well have been historic.
This exchange was included in the excerpt from Toland’s Rising Sun on the September 18 thread. (reply #3).
George Frederick "Buzz" Beurling DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar, RCAF (6 December 1921 – 20 May 1948), was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot of the Second World War. Beurling was recognised as "Canada's most famous hero of Second World War", as "The Falcon of Malta" and the "Knight of Malta", having shot down 27 Axis aircraft in just 14 days over the besieged Mediterranean island. Before the war ended his total climbed to either 31 or 31⅓. Beurling's wartime service was terminated prior to war's end. In an attempt to continue combat flying in the postwar era, Beurling lost his life in a crash while delivering an aircraft to Israel.
http://www.constable.ca/caah/beurling.htm
