M-3 tanks win praise
‘Superior to anything enemy has,’ ordnances chief reports
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Why the Solomon Islands are worth fighting for
Defensively, the Solomon Islands would give the United Nations a base for defending industrially valuable east Australia and the supply line to Australia from the U.S. Offensively, the Solomons could provide a springboard for attacks (arrows) on the myriad Jap-held Pacific Islands which provided the Nipponese with hundreds of “unsinkable aircraft carriers.” (AP Photo)
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Kind of cool and good for morale and combatting fatigue.
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Doubt cast on signs for enemy planes
Washington (UP) –
The War Department cast doubt today on reports, released by the Army at Mitchel Field, New York, that guide signs for enemy planes had been found pointing toward aircraft factories and bases in the East.
A War Department memorandum to the press said:
Reports reaching the War Department indicate that a story relative to signs pointing to important defense installations, released at Mitchel Field, New York, for publication on Monday, may be untrue. The Commanding General, Eastern Defense Command, is having a detailed investigation made and he will take appropriate action.
Meetings in Moscow ‘satisfy’ Maj. Bradley
Moscow, USSR (AP) –
Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley of the United States Army Air Forces, who is here on a special mission for President Roosevelt, has expressed satisfaction at the progress of his negotiations after four meetings with Soviet military authorities.
Here to expedite the flow of American supplies to Russia, he said:
The general attitude [of the Russians] has been one of sincere friendship and cooperation.
He told newspapermen the negotiations were of “considerable scope” but the exact nature or extent of progress were military secrets.
United States Ambassador Admiral William H. Standley is not engaging directly in the talks, but is being kept fully informed, he said.
Neither are British representatives participating, he said.
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Yes, but they could scare the hell of of everybody it they used their “birds” for a lowlevel aerial sightseeing.
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Yeah they might upset the drop bears and that is the last thing you want to do as it is the most dangerous animal in Australia!
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And the emus are watching us… 
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Völkischer Beobachter (August 12, 1942)
Japan über den Sieg bei den Salomoninseln –
„Englisch-amerikanischer Verzweiflungsakt”
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U.S. Navy Department (August 12, 1942)
Navy Communiqué No. 104
Operations in the Solomons are still in progress.
It has been confirmed that the United States Marines have landed as scheduled on three islands in the vicinity of Tulagi. The Marines are engaged in consolidating their positions. Supporting naval forces have been engaged in bitter fighting, details of which are not yet available. United States Army and Australian aircraft are continuing attacks on enemy landing fields and shore-based aircraft.
There is substantial evidence that the Japanese had planned and had well underway the development of an enemy base in the Tulagi area.
Until more details are available, it is impossible to elaborate further on these operations. All available communications facilities are overtaxed by urgent messages concerning operations.
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Reading Eagle (August 12, 1942)
U.S. MARINES ADVANCE IN SOLOMONS
Parachutists are reported in landings
Japs fighting desperate delaying action; await reinforcements
Wild air battles
Americans are seen near first objective in offensive
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Tokyo says foe ships collided in battle
New York (AP) –
A Dōmei broadcast today from Tokyo pictured the sea battle of the Solomon Islands as a struggle at such close quarters that United States and Japanese warships actually collided.
The broadcast, purporting to quote information obtained yesterday from Capt. Shoichi Kamada, Japanese Navy spokesman at Shanghai, still persisted in the fiction that the battle was over and presented it as a one-night encounter.
Kamada, Dōmei said, called the outcome a defeat for the United States forces – a version utterly at conflict with the announcement Monday of Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy, and subsequent information in Washington and Australia.
Reading girl enlists in Army Corps band
Gifted clarinetist goes to Des Moines after passing examinations
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U.S. Army fliers join British in Africa
Cairo, Egypt (AP) –
United States Army fighter pilots have arrived in the Western Desert to learn flying conditions at first hand as dust storms curtailed the war on that front to ground patrols and artillery exchanges.
The Americans are joining RAF squadrons at present, and will fly RAF American-made Curtiss Kittyhawks and Tomahawks, with which most of them are already familiar, it was disclosed.
U.S. fliers shoot down Jap plane at Nanchang
Chungking, China (AP) –
United States fliers yesterday bombed the Japanese airdrome at Nanchang, shot down one enemy plane in combat, probably destroyed another and returned to their base without loss, a communiqué from Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s Headquarters announced today.
Five hits were scored on the field, one directly on a hangar and another between two hangars in which Japanese planes were known to be housed, the bulletin said.