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...time when General Douglas MacArthur's limited forces will land on New Britain may not be too far off. The Jap was preparing. Allied reconnaissance spotted a flow of Jap shipping toward Rabaul. Not all the enemy got through: U.S. Navy Catalinas and U.S. Liberators hit two destroyers, set a tanker afire, sank a 10,000-ton transport...
...first cannon-equipped Mitchells made a flaming kill of a Jap air transport as it was landing, with one shot from 1,500 yards. Other attacks have sunk barges, ripped up gun emplacements, shot up destroyers so that they ceased firing. Until they get a better, airmen will go on swearing that the cannon-toting B-25 is the hardest hitter...
...Commander Dudley Walker Morton had won three Navy Crosses and the Army D.S.C.; the Wahoo, a Presidential unit citation. In two historic patrols Mush and the Wahoo had sunk 69,000 tons of the Emperor's shipping. Among the U.S. submarine fleet, which has sunk altogether some 355 Jap ships, Wahoo was a high scorer. Sticking his jaw out, Mush would say modestly: "We were lucky enough to see a lot of Jap ships and when you see a lot you're apt to sink...
...Betio with the first waves of assault battalions. They were United Pressman Richard Johnston, Associated Pressman William Hippie, Don Senick of Fox Movietone News, A.P. Cameraman Frank Filan and I. All saw men killed beside them in landing boats or on the beach. Senick alone suffered injury; a Jap bullet hit a tree under which he was sitting and dropped...
...Gilbert Bundy, onetime Esquire and New Yorker cartoonist now assigned to do war sketches for King Features Syndicate, started in later. About 75 yards offshore his boat received a direct hit, probably from a Jap 90-mm. mortar. All but one man in it were either killed or blown into the water. Bundy was unharmed...