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Pacific. The pincers against the Jap strong point at Rabaul slowly tightened. Douglas MacArthur seized a New Britain beachhead 270 miles to the southwest, secured it. Army bombers hammered in daily schedule at the Marshalls, writing a prelude to invasion. The drive on Tokyo went still at the infantryman's pace...
Between 4 and 5 a.m. under a ringed half moon, with lightning stabbing the horizon, the American ships entered the narrow channel through Arawe's island screen. The wooded, sloping Jap shore lay silent, waiting...
...lieutenant commander when the fleet sallied out to take the Gilberts last month. Butch O'Hare "hellcatted" the island; he was the first to bring a carrier plane down on conquered Tarawa. A few nights later, off the Marshalls, Jap torpedo planes came over his flat-top again. Butch led the fighters from the deck. Flares shredded the darkness. "You take the side you want," he radiophoned his wingman. "I'll take the port," answered the wingman. "Roger!" said Butch. Tracers glowed around his plane. He sheered off, brought down one Jap, his ninth, then dropped into...
...days later, the survivors returned with reinforcements to retake Changteh. The Japs seized or burned the rice stores, retreated when it was obvious that the Chinese lines would only bend, not break. Once again Chinese resistance and Jap half measures had disposed of a threat to U.S. air bases in central China, a threat which might have been serious if the Japs had chosen to bring enough strength against the ill-fed, ill-equipped Chinese...
From the Treasury Islands attack recently came a legend of Seabee workmanship: a lone bulldozer man had wiped out a Jap gun emplacement. Last week came the details...