Word: corsaire
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...Ireland, combined with bases already established in the Solomons, New Guinea and New Britain, will mean the encirclement of Rabaul. Last week the air-and-sea pincers were pressed from the Solomons, where a 17-months' campaign entered its final, victorious phase. U.S. Liberator bombers, Hellcat and Corsair escorts mauled one of Rabaul's five airfields, shot down 71 to 90 planes, left behind 15 U.S. planes. A U.S. carrier force ranged to Kavieng, sank a Jap destroyer, two cargo ships...
...Harvard, Lucius chartered a plane from which he attempted to festoon the late J. P. Morgan's yacht, Corsair, with toilet paper, initiated a poll to decide whether Harvard should trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield (the motion was lost, 1,234-to-1,227), borrowed and surreptitiously published manuscript poems by Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Harvard and joined the staff of the New York Herald Tribune...
...Back to San Diego came a battle-tried Marine outfit, Fighter Squadron 124, first unit to use the Corsair against the Japanese. In eight months of desperately tough operations, Fighter Squadron 124 had shot down 68 enemy planes, lost only three men. Now its pilots, home for rest and new combat orders, had only praise for the rugged, high-performance, hard hitting, crooked-wing Corsair...
Switch to Offensive. Soon after the Corsair went into action in the Solomons, the Japanese had given it a nickname worthy of their language's tradition of poetical allusion: "Whistling Death." They had reason. The Corsairs were helping U.S. air power in the South Pacific to pass to the offensive, turning the tide of battle at a critical point early this year...
Older Wildcat fighter planes, with an effective range of 400 miles, were sound defensive ships but could not give bombers protection for attacks on major Jap bases. The Corsair's 70O-mile range changed that picture, made possible the knockout and capture of vital Munda; Fighter 124 became the first U.S. squadron to use the landing strip there...