A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 4, 1943

To answer some of the questions our subscribers have been asking about how TIME gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news.

> When our airmen made their big bombing raids on the Japs in the Gilbert Islands September 18-19, William Chickering of TIME went along with the task force.

When our task force blasted Marcus Island only 1,250 miles from Tokyo three weeks before, Charles Edmundson was on the job for you there.

You never saw their first person reports of these raids in TIME (they did not clear in time to catch our issue deadlines)—but still I think knowing about these never-printed stories...

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