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...Ships. The Jap did not land his reinforcements until he had paid heavily for the privilege. In spite of weather, Jap smokescreens and Jap fighter protection, land-based fighters and B-25s from Lieut. General George Kenney's air forces struck heavily. One day they sank seven destroyers and three troop transports out of a total of 19 vessels-but not until the men and supplies had been unloaded...
...show what he could do, the Fourteenth's commander last week sent his fighter-escorted, medium-range B-25 bombers racing over Shinchiku airdrome on Formosa off the east coast of China (see col. 1). The fact that medium-range B-25s and fighters could reach Formosa reminded observers that the Chinese had long since built advance airdromes in eastern China, in the hope that they some day would be used against Tokyo...
...into the Army - or else. "I don't want to be a general," Chennault sighed, "but I can't fight without planes." For a while he almost had to fight without them anyway: in the summer and fall of 1942 his bomber force sometimes averaged five B-25s, his fighter force was down to 20 P-40s, and for months he never had more than 80 planes fit for combat...
...destroyer man where he has been operating and the answer is the Aleutians or the South Pacific, as the case may be; ask a submariner (pronounced submariner in the service) and the casual answer is: "The Empire." The Empire is Japan. Outside of the crews of some B-25s, who did not linger, no other U.S. fighting men have ventured into that area. The submariner regards it as his routine theater of operations...
...will be "the base of operations for planes larger than any which have heretofore been operated from the decks of aircraft carriers." This, said Knox, meant planes bigger than the B-25s which left the Hornet to raid Tokyo. Actually, the Mitchells did not "operate" from the carrier they merely took off. But by the time the CVBs are finished (18 to 24 months from keel laying) there will be newer and bigger planes to make full use of their spreading flight decks...