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Commanders in the field told Colonel Hamilton that training at home ought to stress night fighting. They said: "We mean to take possession at night. Then, let the enemy counterattack at daylight...
Down on the Jap garrison at Sangagai swooped two Marine detachments. One party, moving along the beach, struck the Japs just at mealtime (2 p.m.-the Japs did not observe daylight saving.) Said The Brute: "The Nips immediately scampered into the mountains and met head on with our [other] force coming down. They put up a very nice fight but made the mistake of trying one of those banzai charges . . . our machine guns just chopped them to pieces. One of our men lost the tripod of his machine gun. He picked it up like one of those Victor McLaglen movies...
...Eighth Air Force, badly stung by losses to German rocket-bearing planes, tried new tactics which worked well. Planes were accompanied to their targets by long-range fighters, and mass attacks were meshed with large-scale feints and supplementary bombings. Subsequent bomber losses on three big successive daylight raids...
...time had come for a change of daylight tactics. The old way was terribly expensive. The Regensburg-Schweinfurt raid had cost 59 planes; the second Schweinfurt raid had cost 60. Percentage of casualties had gone up to over 10%. No matter how precious the targets, the flyers and the fleets could not stand such losses. The Germans had come up with new rocket-bearing fighters which could lurk outside the range of U.S. .50-caliber machine guns. Flak was getting thicker...
...Better Way. Up to last week, the daylight bombers had depended mainly on their own fire power for defense. But the U.S. Eighth Air Force worked out new tactics. Last week it tried them and found them good. They involved a combination of two principles: fighter escort all the way to the target, coordination with a whole pattern of associated attacks...