MEDALS FOR U.S. AIRMEN
RUGBY, September 26. Twenty members of the crews of the American bombers which battered an Italian fleet in an action on June 15 have been presented by Air Marshal Tedder. Air Officer Commanding in Chief. Middle East, and Major-General Brereton, commanding the United States Air Force in the Middle East, with the first medals won by Americans in action in this theatre of war. —8.0. W.
of sneaking infiltration, being completely unable to improvise a new plan. They keep on coming till they are dead. That is the reason why the Japanese casualties on Guadalcanar are extremely high. JAPS NOT YET ON THE RUN PEARL HARBOUR, Sept. 26. In a speech after decorating 36 airmen, Vice-Admiral William Halsey, who'commanded the U.S. naval force? which attacked the Japanese bases in the Marshall Islands, said: "Daily shifts at home from optimism to pessimism are not reflecting the true course of the war. . , "We who do the fighting appreciate that the completion of the vast Pacific effort cannot change overnight. By no means have we got the enemy on the run. We know the hardest fighting is ahead."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 77, 28 September 1942, Page 5
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