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...superiority enabled Japanese dive-bombers to return again & again over U.S. positions, in spite of withering anti-aircraft fire. In the lull that followed the latest unsuccessful thrust against MacArthur, Japanese troops took uncontested possession of Masbate Island, in the middle archipelago south of Luzon, which has an excellent airfield less than 300 miles from Bataan...
Well fortified, with its 1,089-foot Pyramids looking far to sea, Fernando de Noronha should make a bristling outpost between South America and Dakar. On the six-by-two-mile island there is already a small airfield, built by Air France before the war. Since the war began, Brazil has been building hangars and fortifications...
Hong Kong's defenses are passing fair: minefields, anti-aircraft guns, gun batteries (some 12-inchers, some said to be 18-inchers) cut into the hills' rocks, British, Canadian, Indian and native troops. The colony's only good airfield is on the Kowloon side, was seized by the Japanese. Hong Kong's defenders always planned to hold until relief could reach them from Singapore. But this citadel, too, was under attack, for its existence...
Last week the same boy, now 21, took off in a Hurricane, swept around the Channel looking for Jerries, came back to earth on a sodden British airfield. Awaiting him was an appointment as squadron leader of the American Eagle Squadron in Great Britain...
...Ordinary soil mixed with 15% cement paves the three 3,000-ft. runways of a new 300-acre airfield owned by Brewster Aeronautical Corp. in Bucks County, Pa. This saved hauling countless tons of gravel and sand to mix with the cement, cut costs 40%, saved time too. The cement-and-dirt pavement can scarcely be broken with sledge hammers, can easily absorb the pounding of Flying Fortresses, is expected to last over ten years. Air force engineers who developed it expect small cracks to appear during the winter, will seal the field with asphalt to prevent ice heaves...