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...Jap-controlled Saigon radio got its foot in its mouth. Commentator Captain Kahn insisted that the resignation "of one man from the Italian Government makes no difference. The resignation of Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister did not alter the British will to fight...
Last week tanks were brought in and the necessary extermination was being administered by explosive shells thrown into the bunkers at point-blank range. At week's end tanks equipped with flame throwers spread more intense terror among the bunkers. The Jap could no longer escape by sneaking up so close to the American line as to avoid the bursts of explosives...
...Fourteen Jap ships sunk, plus 14 or 15 supply-laden barges. Two hundred and fifteen Jap planes destroyed in the air, more on the ground. Cost: 59 Allied aircraft, one warship. That was the score of two weeks' action on General MacArthur's new Pacific front...
...months ago the Jap's tactical air force along his southern perimeter was considered formidable. In the last fortnight there were days when two to seven were all the planes he could muster; his largest operational flight...
Apparently determined to cling to New Georgia as long as he could, the Jap had resorted to sea strength as his air force weakened. He revived the "Tokyo Express." But the U.S. Navy's powerful guns had felt out the Jap ships in the darkness, sunk between 17 and 23, crippled more. Bombers, too, lashed at Jap shipping. Superior force, which had been brought to bear in Tunisia and Sicily, was winning in the Pacific as well...