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Thereafter Ensign Burk concentrated on a particular target: Jap landing barges. Soon he found himself a champ for the second time in his life. His record: 13 Jap barges sent to the bottom, an assist on a 14th...
Along the coast of New Britain, U.S. Marines have been proving that old ways can still be effective ways. Fire is one of the handiest of all weapons for getting the Jap out of his carefully revetted bunkers or sealing him in forever. The fire is thrown from the Army's improved portable flamethrower, which is superior to anything the Jap is known to have, more easily maintained, simpler, unaffected by tropic damp...
...infantry-lean, navy-poor Southeast Asia Command last week recorded its first major kill at sea: a British submarine had destroyed a 5,100-ton Japanese cruiser almost within sight of Jap-held Sumatra and Malaya. It was the most successful invasion of enemy waters by a British submarine since H.M.S. Truant torpedoed two Japanese ships on its historic, 80,000-mile cruise through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific...
...submarine had landed at Newchwang, Manchuria, and purchased fresh fish from the natives. To reach Newchwang, at the northern end of the Gulf of Liaotung, the submarine would have had to penetrate the string of islands off the southern tip of Japan, cross the Yellow Sea, creep past the Jap naval base at Port Arthur, lie off nominally Jap-occupied territory. Total Pacific bag of U.S. submarines to date (including twelve more merchant sinkings announced last week...
...credit side, the B-26 did have a good combat record in the Pacific, where it pounded Jap ships and supplies. But the first squadrons to reach England last year ran into hard luck again...