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...tiny Mapia Islands off Dutch New Guinea. Presumably they were taken as flank protection for the U.S. air base on Biak. Meanwhile U.S. Liberator bombers flew 800 miles to bomb the important Japanese naval base at Brunei Bay on the far side of Borneo, scoring five hits on a battleship, four on a cruiser. Both ships, presumably cripples or survivors of last month's naval battle, were left blazing...
...last of Germany's great battleships, the 42,000-ton Tirpitz, lived a desperate, hunted life almost from her completion in 1941. Much of the time she hid in harbors licking the wounds from persistent British air attacks. This week off Tromso harbor in northern Norway her barren career ended. Said the British Air Ministry: "Twentynine Lancasters of the R.A.F. Bomber Command . . . attacked the German battleship Tirpitz with 12,0001b. bombs. There were several direct hits and within a few minutes the ship capsized and sank. One of our aircraft is missing...
...island's seaward face, the Germans had been gunned up for invasion since last spring. The British, who had the job to do and knew it would be bloody, tried to soften up the objective. Mosquito bombers peppered Westkapelle the night before the attack. Next morning the battleship Warspite (15-inch guns) and two monitors stood offshore and poured shells into the German positions. The Allies had assembled 200 assault craft, some of them heavily armed with guns and rockets. The LCIs were packed with Royal Marine Commandos...
Mitscher's Avengers. It was time for the first strike. Mitscher sent off powerful forces of Hellcats, Avengers and Hell-divers against both Jap fleets. In the central force, they damaged a battleship and a cruiser, both of which may have sunk. A light cruiser was torpedoed; it capsized and sank. Three battleships and three heavy cruisers absorbed both bombs and torpedoes, but pressed...
...Germans have already trundled the bomb-damaged hulk of the battleship Tirpitz from Altenfjord south to Tromsö, where the R.A.F. found it and hit it again with a six-ton bomb...