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...crops at Poplar, Wis. (pop. 462). His first combat was in the Buna battle of Dec. 27, when he twice rang the bell with a Zero and a dive-bomber. During the smashing of the Lae convoy in early January he nailed three Zeros. He got another in the Bismarck Sea battle...
After the Storm. Warming up to his theory, Dr. Petersen quotes A. J. Beveridge to point out that Charles Darwin was born the same day as Lincoln, that Victor Hugo, Cavour, Disraeli, Dickens, Bryce, Thackeray and Bismarck were all born at about the same time. To support his idea that unsettled weather has something to do with it, he notes that a crest of great sun spot activity in 1778 was followed within a few years by a historic high point in mankind's production of geniuses, that the Golden Age of Greece coincided with an alltime high...
Over Guadalcanal and the outlying Russell Islands suddenly appeared 120 Jap aircraft, only 16 less than the U.S. and Australians used in the Bismarck Sea. Just what the Japs hoped to accomplish with this formidable force was hard to see: no important shipping was in the area, according to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and the Japs surely knew by then that the American positions were well defended. U.S. fighters tore into the Jap formations, shot down 77 bombers and Zero-type fighters. Ack-ack accounted for 17 more. U.S. loss: six planes (plus, probably, some others temporarily damaged...
Whatever their purpose, it was up to Allied war power to do what it could to stop them-and it was on the record that in his last major engagement (Bismarck Sea), Kenney had used exactly 136 planes...
Next day, in a soft voice and broken accent, Eduard Benes addressed the two Houses of Congress, recalled for his listeners Bismarck's once-famed phrase: "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." Added the Czech President: "Europe must, therefore, never allow any nation except the Czechs to rule it [Bohemia], since that nation does not lust for domination...