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Another good old American custom I would like to see is nailing a Jap hide on every "backhouse" door in America...
...short and dismal history of the second Burma campaign the British never had made their purposes clear. A major accomplishment would have been the seizure of the Jap base at Rangoon on the Bay of Bengal. In the end the British would have settled for the little harbor and air base of Akyab, about 325 miles north of Rangoon. But even Akyab now was beyond reach - at least until the end of the monsoon, some time in October...
WASHINGTON--American aerial attacks on five more Japanese bases in the Solomons were reported by the Navy today as Secretary Frank Knox acknowledged increased Jap air strength in the southwest Pacific but questioned whether this portended an attempted invasion of Australia...
...attacks on Oro Bay and Guadalcanal the Japs lost 31 planes. Liberators and Flying Fortresses of MacArthur's command, in three assaults on Kavieng, sank two Jap cruisers and a destroyer, damaged other warships and merchantmen...
...taken toll of the Times foreign staff. Crack Correspondent Byron Darnton was accidentally killed in New Guinea. Robert Post failed to return from a bomber trip over Wilhelmshaven. Fred Wilkins, long the Times's Manila correspondent, is a Jap prisoner. Other able, famed Timesmen, like Otto Tolischus (author of the recent Tokyo Record) and Hallett Abend (Ramparts of the Pacific), are now in the U.S. because the countries they covered are enemy-held...