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...Washington last week hurried Colonel Frederick Smith, deputy chief of staff of MacArthur's Fifth Air Force, fresh from the Pacific theater with a lot of information and permission to spill some of it. This was his estimate of Jap air power there...
...best Jap plane we've run into is the improved Zero, which we call the Hap. It has some armor protection for the pilot and a little more power than the Zero without sacrificing much maneuverability. But it blows up like a Zero when...
...stove manufacturer and general trader of Maysville, Ky., had been up to. He had been surveying the jungle, dickering with the savage Naga headhunters of the region, and setting up a series of vital military outposts in the trackless country between the U.S. air bases in northern Assam and Jap advance lines in Burma...
...waves again. The Arizona is being cut up for scrap. Her turret mechanism, main and secondary batteries will be used elsewhere. Even the old Utah may yet deal a blow for revenge : some of her ammunition has been recovered, and her sister ships may fire it at the infamous Jap...
Supplied by plane and what they found to eat in the jungle, these British raiders operated over 10,000 square miles of Burma at a time, cutting Jap lines of communication, raiding Jap outposts, throwing the enemy into confusion far behind the front lines. Troops used were not specially picked men, but they were highly trained; for six months Brigadier Wingate had worked them in the Assam jungles...