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Then, while their wives cling to one another in a dreary hotel room, the boys zoom off for combat overseas. Winged Victory ends in the South Pacific, with a Jap raid that explodes upon a camp Christmas shindig, sends the flyers into action...
...been ordered to lead his fighters to cover dive-bombers and torpedo planes making a strike on a small Jap task force. When he got into the air, he found his instruments were quirky, but he decided to go on. The task force was spotted, then Jap planes appeared...
...Roberts used to reply, "If I could only fly like Porky Cragg I would never fear any Jap...
Finally the Navy was ready. Conservative Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, blazed a challenge: "Henceforth we propose to give the Jap no rest anywhere." Last week's move signaled the opening of operations...
...came at a time when the Jap was digging in everywhere, the Allies cautiously moving forward. U.S. warships, ignoring the threat from Jap-held Rabaul, less than 200 miles distant, steamed boldly off the northern tip of Bougainville, and for 45 minutes poured shells into Jap air bases on Buka Island. Reinforced U.S. troops fought grimly in the jungles of Bougainville, wrenching advances of several hundred yards in the Empress Augusta Bay area while engineers rushed construction of airstrips. Australian troops, using Matilda tanks smuggled in secretly at night, increased pressure against the Japanese in the Finschhaven sector...