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...Japanese resistance in eastern New Guinea collapsed like a made-in-Nagasaki celluloid doll as Australian and U.S. troops joined forces in the rugged jungle country 14 miles east of Saidor. The meeting gave the Allies complete control of the Huon Peninsula, completed the destruction of a Jap force...
...Pilots reported that systematic bombing has virtually neutralized Rabaul, once-formidable key base of the Jap defenses in the Bismarck Archipelago. All enemy warships have been withdrawn from Rabaul; merchant shipping is less than 50% of normal...
...bombing mission was long and risky: a 2,100-mile flight to hit the Jap-held nickel port of Pombelaa on Buton Island. Eleven men rode to battle in the big 6-24 Liberator bomber "Golden Gator," but only four lived to see their North Australian base again. Navigator Lieut. Robert Jones had tears in his eyes as he told Chicago Tribune Correspondent...
Four ships had bombed the target, then headed home in a tight diamond formation. Fourteen Jap fighters jumped them, shot down the win ship "Fyrtle Myrtle" (socalled because one of its crew was a new father, another expectant). Then the Zeros shot out one of "Golden Gator's" engines; the pilot, Captain Frederick S. Hinze Jr., dived the ship into a cloud...
...Golden Gator" lost another engine, and a third was stalling. Captain Hinze dived sharply to windmill the engine back into action, skimming so low over a small island that the tail took a chunk out of a tree. The "Golden Gator" climbed hopefully again, but this time twin-engined Jap fighters attacked...