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...Jap's ability to replace pilots was steadily slipping. Veteran flyers in the Pacific say that they have been fighting the "second team" ever since the Battle of Midway in June 1942, when the Jap, losing four carriers, lost his first-string pilots...
Anxious Seat. From the Jap point of view the situation could never have looked more dangerous than it did last week. Three months ago the Jap, giving ground slowly in New Guinea, still held the initiative in the Solomons. He was in position to attack; the U.S. was on the defence. The capture of Munda reversed that...
...from his strategic air and naval base at Rabaul, apex of a triangle, the Jap looked down anxiously on Munda. Its coral airfield had been repaired and was in operation as a fighter base. It was being used already against Rabaul's outpost, Bougainville, which the U.S. might conceivably by-pass as it had Kolombangara...
Second Team. Worse luck for the Jap was his inability to scrape together enough air strength at any one place to stop the" Allied air power that kept hitting him in every spot. Last week, when Lieut. General George Kenney decided to force a showdown for air control over central New Guinea, the Jap took the worst licking he has taken yet in the air. He had massed a strong force along the 35-mile-long chain of airfields at Wewak. Over this nest U.S. planes roared. Said Kenney's deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will...
...Solomons area since June 16, when he sent 120 planes over Guadalcanal and lost 94 of them in one day, the Jap has lost 532 planes against an Allied loss of 99. Total losses in both areas: Japs, at least 1,060; Allies...