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...other planes. Wherever the Hellcats have roved in the skies above the Pacific, they have conquered. At Guam, Ensign W. B. ("Spider") Webb nosed his Hellcat into a cluster of Jap dive bombers, joined them in their landing circle, leisurely shot down six. In the first attack on the Bonin Islands in June, Lieut. L. G. ("Barney") Barnard shot down two Jap planes in 25 seconds, sent three more spinning out of the air within 25 minutes...
...mandated islands in the Pacific (including the Carolines, Marshalls and Marianas), plus the Bonin Islands, Marcus, Ryukyu and Formosa...
Strike One on Oikawa. Before Oikawa, who self-consciously calls war an art, had time to prove his artistry, the U.S. Pacific Fleet had humiliated him even more than his predecessors had been. A fast carrier task force bored into the Bonin Islands-closer to Tokyo than ever before-destroyed a Jap convoy and plastered Empire military and naval works less than 600 miles from Imperial Headquarters...
Guess Which, Oikawa. On the Bonin strike, Jap shore establishments caught it, too. From Muko Jima, 580 miles from Tokyo, all the way down the 80-mile chain, cruisers and destroyers thoroughly and thoughtfully shelled every Jap base that looked worthwhile...
...anticlimax had its own significance. The Japs failed completely to react. If there were any fighters on the island, they never got in the air. Although U.S. surface ships were within bombing range of strong Jap bases on Bonin and Marianas Islands, no bombers ever appeared to retaliate. Conspicuously absent was the Jap fleet...