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...Power. The stirring autumn battles in the Solomons have given the impression that the Japanese Navy has been whittled unmercifully. Indeed, since war's beginning, 104 Jap warships have been claimed sunk, plus 22 probably sunk. Of these perhaps 25 were cruisers and more than 50 were destroyers, whittling the Japs in these vital categories to about 25 and 85 respectively. However, little is known of the Japanese replacement program. U.S. production ought by 1944 to give the U.S. definite naval superiority over Japan; but the fact is that at this moment Japan still enjoys at least equal naval...
...Chinese fronts are quiet. The Jap is not attacking, but the Chinese now do not have the strength, or even the will, to rise up out of their slit trenches and march. Their lack of nourishment has come about, not because all China lacks food, but because China lacks transportation. China's armies can no longer be depended on to keep Japan at bay just by the supplying from the U.S. of mere trinkets of war. China needs mobility...
Stealthily through a Solomons channel a Jap Kongo Class battleship slipped near dusk on Oct. 25. A squad of Navy SBDs dive-bombed it, streaked back to Guadalcanal. A half-hour later six Army Flying Fortresses swung over the channel. From a tight, high-level formation they straddle-bombed the ship, scored two square hits. The battleship turned 45 degrees, headed north. Suddenly a magazine let loose. Fire leaped from bow to stern. The ship stopped dead. For hours the calm South Pacific sky and sea were lighted by flames until at midnight the battleship sank...
...stories of the war," a feat of one Bombardment Group (designation secret). It was the high mark in the crack battle record of that group and its Flying Fortresses. From their arrival on Guadalcanal in August until November, they had met the enemy 500 times, shot down 113 Jap planes, destroyed 13 more on the ground...
...Corps' best pilots. But in 1940 a change began to come over rollicking Blondie. Assigned to Hickam Field, Hawaii, he was made Commander of a Flying Fortress outfit. And Blondie became serious, sobersided, calculating. On Dec. 7, Saunders was taxiing a Fortress across the field when Jap planes shot it from under him. He tried another, with the same result. It made him coldly furious...