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This did not mean that the Battle of the Pacific had magically become a pushover. The Jap was still strong among the islands of his inner barrier. He still had naval and air power which would have to be beaten down before victory. Men would die by the thousands before American soldiers and marines set foot on the home islands of Japan. What it did mean was that the Battle of the Pacific no longer seemed the heartbreaking, long, near-impossible fight it was a year...
...Navy had been tactically wise in putting its building stress on carriers. Result: Japan's air power in the Pacific islands, its most potent defense after Midway, had been canceled out. The Jap's "unsinkable aircraft carriers" had in a sense become a liability. Aboard its Pacific carriers (more than 50 at last announcement) the U.S. had enough air power to snow under the best defense the enemy could put up from any island. The weakness of the unsinkables had been found. Admiral Takahashi made reluctant admission last February: carriers could be maneuvered, the islands couldn...
...flung respectable base establishments deep into the Pacific. Many a naval officer is sure today that it is no longer necessary to sweep up every island base on the way to the south coast of China, the objective beyond the Philippines announced by Admiral Nimitz in February. The battered Jap base at Rabaul on New Britain could be bypassed, left to wither. So might the Jap fortress at Truk...
Next Stop. Where the Navy will next strike in force, how it will utilize the 16-20 Allied divisions now under Douglas MacArthur's command, plus unpublished others under Nimitz' command, are still questions for the Jap to answer. But that the next great strike will be more spectacular and far-reaching than any yet made, he can be pretty sure...
...front last week was a blond, crinkle-eyed, corn-fed youngster from Poplar, Wis. Over Hollandia, New Guinea, the Army Air Forces' stocky, 23-year-old Captain Richard Ira Bong had smashed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's 26-year-old record* by knocking down his 26th and 27th Jap aircraft...