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This most recent Imperial recognition for a great Japanese "victory" was described in the popular Japanese press and over the radio. Not described was the fall of Buna to Allied troops. Not mentioned was the daily bombing of the Munda airport by U.S. planes. Not even whispered was the possibility that Allied forces might be gathering for new offensive moves. Reason: the Japanese were gathering...
Despite the U.S. heavy bombers' heavy toll, the Jap dipped next day into his deep reservoir of shipping and brought out four transports, determinedly convoyed by two cruisers and four destroyers. The destination: Lae (rhymes with gay) 150 miles up the New Guinea coast from Buna, where the Jap has his nearest foothold...
American troops moving up the coast from the Buna area, which was overrun by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's men on Jan. 2, captured the village of Tarakene, a mile and a half below Sanananda, on Sunday...
...officially spoken of as the Coronado, the P-40F (fighter) the Warhawk, the SBD (dive-bomber) the Dauntless. But it was still hard to visualize a dusty, sweaty operations officer telling a pilot to "get in that Skymaster and take some food up to the boys at Buna." (Skymaster-C-54 four-engined transport...
Some time next week the first synthetic-rubber plant in Rubber Czar William Jeffers' 1,000,000-ton program will actually start turning out butadiene-the strategic chemical that forms the basis of Buna-S tire rubber. The plant: Union Carbide & Carbon's 80,000-ton unit at Institute, W. Va., which will make rubber from grain alcohol...