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Navy flyers in the South Pacific reported that a "Type 3" Jap fighter, probably equipped with a self-sealing gas tank, did not burn and explode as readily as the light Zeros do. But they also said that Type 3 was no match for the new Vought Corsair...
Lieut. Robert Pershing Williams is a tall, lithe young man complete with a crew haircut. Out of Pierre, S.Dak. and the University of Washington, at 25 he is a veteran of naval flying. In the battle of the Coral Sea, flying from the ill-starred Lexington against a Jap carrier, he won the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism and conspicuous devotion to duty." Last week the Navy credited him with a remarkable record in another ocean against another foe: Germany's U-boats...
MacArthur's offensive proved that trained men and modern equipment, skillfully employed, could rout the Japs in their own jungles. The attack had a precise pattern. MacArthur, less than a year ago converted to air power, used it masterfully. His planes pinned down the Japs at the bases from which they might otherwise have launched counterblows. Airborne infantry and amphibious forces caught the Japs in one trap after another. Bombers and artillery, concentrating on the Japs' encircled positions, pulverized them before Allied troops moved in. The enemy scattered and fled or died. Up to this week some...
...spearheaded lines on the map stop away short of Tokyo. How would Mountbatten proceed across the part of China which is firmly held by Jap troops? Where would Nimitz head after he had seized the bases on the Jap periphery? How would he destroy a Jap fleet which refused to engage? Where would MacArthur go from the Philippines...
Then came Pearl Harbor, the Jap landings in the Aleutians, the U.S. military airfields chaining north to Alaska, the Alaska Military Highway to serve the airports. Gas & oil achieved military importance. Norman Wells stirred...