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...Islands. On the same night a little fleet of landing boats moved out from Papua, toward the Trobriand and Woodlark Islands. Lieut. Commander John D. Bulkeley, the famed "expendable" who brought General MacArthur out of Corregidor, commanded an escorting section of PT boats. Overhead low-flying P-38s also guarded the convoy...
From such bases, often deep in mud, lashed by biting winds and rain, Allied air forces fought for control of the North African skies against Axis planes based more solidly at Tunis and Bizerte. On one red-letter day last week Flying Fortresses and P-38s destroyed 23 Axis planes, damaged 34 others, lost only two of their own planes...
...along the whole Tunisian east coast. In the an, the Allies "accounted for two to one in individual combat," Mr. Stimson said. At week's end, able to get in the air again after a stretch of bad weather which had grounded them, Flying Fortresses escorted by P-38s and P-405 bombed Bizerte and Sfax. The P-40s were Warhawks, newest version of the Hawks (others: Tomahawks, Kittyhawks). making their debut on the Tunisian front...
...During six high-altitude flights over Europe, the P-38, which is supercharged to fly as high as 40,000 feet, has not been challenged by the Nazis, leaving the P-38s substratosphere status unanswered...
...Guinea, P-38s were strafing the hard-pressed Japs, meeting some Japanese Zeros (results unannounced...