[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Oops. I posted the replies in the wrong order. Sorry. As it says in reply #3, "Guadalcanal Diary" opens today in L.A. but we don't get to see it in New York until the 17th. Look for the review the following day.

Marines in Action (Kluckhohn) – 2-3
Premier is Grave (Middleton) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
New Russian Gains Add to Nazis’ Peril – 4
Eighth Army Nears Foe’s ‘Winter Line’ – 5
Pact a Product of U.S. (Krock) – 6
War and Air Power (de Seversky) – 6
The Battle of Rabaul (Baldwin) – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 8-9

[Tax-chick]

Iirc, I read that Bougainville has they heaviest average rainfall on earth. Conditions there for both the Japanese and the Allies were almost indescribably horrible.