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Suave, suntanned Admiral Hideo Yano, spokesman for the Imperial Navy, last week gave a German correspondent in Tokyo a Jap's-eye view of the Pacific...
...Guinea. General MacArthur's men (Sixth Army veterans of Buna) had landed at Saidor on the northern New Guinea coast, found scant opposition, lost three men dead, buried eleven Japs, seized the settlement's grass huts, coconut groves, rubber plantations (the first recovered from the Japs), an unused air strip. Then they fanned out, trapping Jap patrols who were skirmishing with Australians some 60 miles down the coast. With an Australian column poised inland in the Ramu Valley, they set up a two-pronged threat to Madang, the next important Jap base northwest of Finsch-haven...
...Solomons. From the fighter runway at Empress Augusta Bay, from new bomber dromes on Bougainville and Treasury Islands, Allied planes ranged north. They raked Jap barge traffic coming down the Pacific islands to Rabaul. Daily they swept over Rabaul's five airfields, flushed as many as 80 Jap Zeros in one day, knocked down as many as 18. Nightly they struck farther: at Kavieng, on New Ireland, a way station between Truk and Rabaul. U.S. carrier-based planes pounded Kavieng's shipping. On New Year's Day they left two cruisers, one destroyer blazing; three days later...
...Merritt A. Edson, Marine veteran of Guadalcanal and Ta rawa, contended that Tarawa's casualties, relatively no higher than Guadalcanal's, had struck the public "more forcefully'' because they were suffered in four days instead of four months. Battle-hardened Merritt Edson declared that determined Jap resistance, rather than U.S. mistakes, caused the losses on Tarawa and would cause more on other islands. Marines particularly resented the suggestion in some reports that excessive losses off the beaches indicated bungled landings; at least half of the dead fell within the Japs' inner defenses...
...Seventh tangled with 60 Zeros-almost double the heaviest opposition previously encountered over the Marshalls. Clearly the Japs were getting stronger. Almost every night, and once five times in a single night, Jap planes droned over U.S. positions on Makin, Tarawa and Abemama in the Gilberts. The U.S. Navy said that the enemy's numbers were small, his blows negligible. But the raids gave a warning: unlike the Gilberts, where there had been scant air resistance, the Marshalls would be defended in the air, over the seas, and on the ground...