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Since then he has been on many. Best record is three cargo ships, two light cruisers and three destroyers sunk with 30 bombs. Bill Benn himself holds the D.S.C. for being our in front when 100,000 tons of Jap shipping were sunk...
...weekly New York edition of the Post was decided on to repudiate the Jap propaganda sheet now published in Shanghai under the Post's respected masthead. Starr's far-flung friends send in many a news tip about Far East affairs. So far the New York edition, tabloid size, has about 8,500 readers...
Next morning, before the sun began to smother Moresby in equatorial heat, three Fortresses droned north. Reconnaissance photographs had revealed a larger concentration of Jap ships in Rabaul Harbor than usual, and some 40 planes on adjacent airdromes. The vanguard of Fortresses ignored the ships, dropped their 500-lb. bombs on the planes. How many they smashed the darkness concealed, but fewer than 20 rose to meet the 30-odd U.S. bombers which struck the harbor's clustered ships at noon. Five of these went down before the squadrons' .50-caliber guns. Nine, possibly ten, warships were left...
Despite the U.S. heavy bombers' heavy toll, the Jap dipped next day into his deep reservoir of shipping and brought out four transports, determinedly convoyed by two cruisers and four destroyers. The destination: Lae (rhymes with gay) 150 miles up the New Guinea coast from Buna, where the Jap has his nearest foothold...
...into the Lae airdrome, burnt up one Zero, shot up others on the runway. In the late afternoon the oft-derided Kittyhawks were attacked by 18 Zeros. Score: 13 Zeros shot down, one Kittyhawk (pilot safe). When 20 more Zeros jumped some Lightnings they lost all but five. Total Jap planes lost in three days: 85 certain, 48 more maybe. Said MacArthur's communiqué dryly: "The enemy's air losses over the last three days may be regarded as serious." Allied losses: "Comparatively negligible...