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...Your article mentions the fact that a desperate Jap counterattack broke through our greenest regiment. That is true. But the Marine artillery did not stop any Jap counterattack. Our regiment moved up and reestablished a line. While moving up they recaptured two batteries of Marine artillery, lost during the Jap counterattack...
...Leroy ("Tex") Harris, escorting the bombers over Davao Gulf, reported by radio that they had spotted a Jap destroyer. Tex radioed blithely: "Wait about five minutes and I'll tell you where it was-repeat was." Less than five minutes later the bombers had sunk the destroyer...
...came the news which surprised no one. Back on duty in the Southwest Pacific as a gunnery instructor, Dick Bong was in battle again. He had led Lightning fighters on a 1,500-mile raid to Balikpapan, the longest fighter operation ever attempted in the theater. Over Borneo 20 Jap planes had jumped U.S. heavy bombers. Bong and his P-38s piled in and drove them off. Instructor Bong's personal score: two Japanese planes...
Even before Jap air power was finally liquidated in the South Pacific and the war moved to the west, most Marine air outfits found themselves hunting for vanishing game. Life got to be dull and morale flagged...
Every day thousands of Westerners angrily tell each other: "As soon as the European war ends, Eastern business will reconvert. But the West will have to go right on turning out ships and planes. By the time the Jap war is over, the East will have grabbed all our postwar markets-and we'll be flat on our backs...