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...reporter to write from Washington: "United States fighter planes have scored a smashing victory over the Japanese at Guadalcanal, shooting down 37 of an attacking force of 98 planes, with a loss of seven American craft, the Navy announced today in a communiqué that told of the greatest aerial battle in the Solomons since last winter...
...respect due the most thoroughly experienced air force in the world. But they did not agree. Dive-bombing, conceived and brought to its highest perfection by the U.S. Navy, is still thoroughly alive in the U.S. forces. In the Pacific, the Douglas Dauntless (SBD) is still the most effective aerial weapon in the fleet, has done more damage than torpedo planes. Result of its showing: the Army Air Forces is now gladly taking instruction from Navy airmen on dive-bombing technique, and has taken up the SBD, which the Air Forces call...
WASHINGTON--American aerial attacks on five more Japanese bases in the Solomons were reported by the Navy today as Secretary Frank Knox acknowledged increased Jap air strength in the southwest Pacific but questioned whether this portended an attempted invasion of Australia...
...over North Africa. The sky, except for a few rude little patches, belonged to the Allies. Across its trackless terrain thundered all the fine names-the Flying Fortresses, Halifaxes, Wellingtons, Liberators, Bisleys, Mitchells, Bostons, Marauders, Baltimores, Lightnings, Spitfires, Beaufighters, Hurri-bombers, Aira-cobras, Kittyhawks, Warhawks. But though the aerial terrain was trackless, the pattern of the thunder was very exact, very formal-and very effective...
...south of the Mareth Line, British and Fighting French units had made a wide sweep and were clawing their way towards El Hamma. Rommel sent German armor to bend back this threatening arm. Allied armor and an "unprecedented" onslaught of aerial power met the German column. So terrific was the air attack that even veteran Germans wilted. Only 20 miles from Gabès, the column drove on, threatening to close Rommel's corridor of retreat (see map). At that juncture, Montgomery shifted and struck again at the Mareth Line...