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...newest fighter is a direct descendant of the Wildcat and a factory mate of the Navy's crack Avenger torpedo plane. Its name: the Grumman Hellcat. This and little more the Navy announced, along with the news that a task force had crept close to the Jap's Marcus Island, thoroughly plastered it with shot and bombs from Hellcats and Avengers...
...built after Pearl Harbor. Shy, introversive "Roy" Grumman already had his engineering staff working on a bigger and better craft than the Wildcat when the war began, but they rubbed a lot of it out and started over again after they had talked to pilots who had met the Jap in combat...
...ship's most amazing characteristic is that it is also a nimble dogfighter. Said one of its Navy pilots: "The first Jap fighter that ties into this one is going to get the surprise of his life." The surprise is still to come. At Marcus, the Hellcat met no Zeros...
...Shipping Administration last week announced the most ironic U.S. aid-to-China yet: two Liberty ships.* Thus for the first time in modern history China will have an ocean-going merchant marine of her own. But, for the first time ever, she has no coastline: until the Jap is thrown out of China, her spanking new 20,000-ton fleet can serve only U.S. and British ports...
...stab into enemy waters 1,250 miles from Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 13) sounded like an anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded Rear Admiral Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall...