On Guadalcanal, Martin Clemens is all alone at Aola. The last beer is gone, and the only radio he can get is a BBC program aimed at West Africa. It's too much. He breaks into tears. To retaliate for the Doolittle Raid, the Japanese attack in China, storming into the Chekiang and Yunnan Provinces, to prevent it from being used for further American air attacks.
Rain begins in Burma, heralding the monsoon season.
While the Allied retreat slows, so does the Japanese advance. We stopped for a big chow. Tea, chicken and rice, green tomatoes and jungle spinach. Off again at 10 and struggled through the night. Many snags and rafts are breaking up.