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...likelihood last week the main units of Japan's fleet were based along the Jap lifeline which stretches from the homeland to The Netherlands East Indies, a line which passes through Palau and Yap, strong bases 470 and 750 miles off the coast of the Philippines. Sooner or later the U.S. would be in a position to strike at that line. It is there that the Jap fleet may make its last-ditch defense, when the U.S. fleet is 4,000 miles from Pearl Harbor...
Admiral Nimitz announced the results: one cargo ship sunk, others set afire or damaged; a total of 135 Jap planes destroyed against a loss of six U.S. planes...
...southwest Pacific flyers under command of General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey were busy as beavers. During the week some 500 tons of bombs were dropped on Rabaul, finally made so untenable that no Jap fighters rose to intercept...
...Navy tanker in the Central Pacific: China, with Loretta Young. The hero blows up a mountain, snuffing out a Jap division, to the skepticism of the audience...
From the Enemy. Jap prisoners of some Marines on Guadalcanal, Kahn relates, spent half the time boasting about their leaders, the other half begging for cigarets. "One Marine first sergeant hit upon the happy notion of requiring that each Jap, before getting a cigaret, recite loudly: 'Tojo is a son of a bitch...