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...Only 105 Jap planes-probably from two carriers-were required to defeat the U.S. Navy & Army, There were, the Navy estimated, 21 torpedo planes, 48 dive-bombers, 36 horizontal bombers...
WASHINGTON--American torpedo planes and dive bombers, blasting the seventh Jap invasion against Guadalcanal, sank an enemy cruiser or destroyer, set fire to three other warships and shot down 10 aircraft last Thursday at a cost of only three planes, the Navy disclosed today...
...they attacked the outlying bastion of the German lines. When Nehring counterattacked with tanks they hurled him back. They seized the town of Djedeida, twelve miles from Tunis, and all but isolated that city from Bizerte. Nehring destroyed roads, blew up bridges, dug in for defense. Milch sent his dive-bombers screeching overhead. From Algeria came word that as soon as Doolittle's fighters could spread an umbrella, the First Army would make its final, headlong charge into the fire...
Major Jack Dougherty's bombs stuck. "Let's dive bomb," said Lieut. Ed Magee. The Fortress' wings held on miraculously; the bombs came out; the Jap transport sank. Lieut. Colonel James T. Connally (Senator Tom's cousin), Commander of the 19th from April until July, sank a cruiser, a destroyer, a large transport, at least four other vessels, scored four hits on a battleship. The 19th's Captain Frank Bostrom flew MacArthur into Australia...
...various bases. The setup was as simple as Eden. Jimmy would drive up, find a space whacked out of the jungle, set up his screen and put on his show. One of the early screenings was interrupted three times by Japanese bombers. Wrote Jimmy: "We would all dive for the slit trenches until the Nips passed and then come out again and go on with the show. Gosh we have fun. Those were the days...