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Allied flyers (American pilots outnumbered the British 2-to-1) caught the Japanese with their kimonos up, peppered the island port of Sabang just off Sumatra's northern tip, salted down Lho Nga airfield on Sumatra proper. Japanese installations were torn, five small ships burned, 25 airplanes wrecked...
...true university approach to aviation goes a long way beyond motors and wings. Just how far it goes was suggested last week as the University of Illinois got ready to turn the sod on what will be the No. 1 university-owned airfield in the U.S. The 800-acre, $2,500,000 Champaign County field will be the center of many kinds of research. Possibilities...
...Topography: problems of airfield site selection, drainage, grading, obstacles...
...airfield was secured following two violent Jap countercharges which dwindled finally into melodramatic suicide. Drunk with beer and saki, the Japs dashed in waves against American machine guns...
...some 300 miles, on New Guinea's northern shore, Brigadier General William Rupertus and his 1st Marine Division had been fighting their way in the direction of Rabaul. It was a slow pace. Last week they speeded it up, jumped overwater to a new objective: the airfield and town of Talasea on the Willaumez Peninsula, 170 miles from Rabaul...