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...Tokyo area, the fast carrier task groups of the Pacific Fleet were on the rampage again. Presumably still operating as Task Force 58, under Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, they appeared defiantly this week southeast of Kyushu Island, where they were ringed about by enemy bases in the Izu Islands, in Japan proper and in the Ryukyus. If the Jap Navy-or that part of it has been repaired-wanted a fight, it could have...
...Japanese warship Manshu last week, with arch-plotters aboard (see p. 18). They had been plotting for six months in the Pacific; had plotted the deepest spot yet discovered in the world's oceans, an abyss 9,435 metres (a little over 5 miles) deep between the Izu Peninsula, Japan, and the Bonin Islands. (Previous depth record: 8,500 metres [about 4% miles] off the Kurile Islands, plumbed by the U. S. S. Tuscarora...