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...reached 587 this week.* The success of anti-U-boat operations, about which the Navy kept mum, might be judged in part by the success the Japanese have had against U.S. submarines about which the Navy had more to say. Against a record of hits on more than 150 Jap vessels, only three U.S. submarines have been reported overdue and presumably lost...
...Buin, on Bougainville, U.S. flyers spotted new concentrations of Jap planes. Seaplane tenders were reported to have helped strengthen the Jap floatplane base at Rekata Bay. Flyers reported encountering two new fighter types, both faster than the Zero. Of the six-week lull in Jap air operations over Guadalcanal, Major General Millard F. Harmon, commander of U.S. Army flyers in the area, said: "It certainly is not going to last. They can reasonably be expected to resume bombing operations with planes improved in armor and armament...
...settlers burning brush and seemed purely accidental; Brazilians and Japanese together put them out. But from then on the conflagrations grew in number and seriousness. Recently fires broke out in the highland regions of the western rivers, where some of Brazil's best rubber is grown and where Jap settlers have infiltrated. Thousands of hectares of trees were ruined for next year's tapping, perhaps for good; many miles of estradas, the jungle paths used by the rubber tappers, were damaged...
Above the thin shimmering water-slash of a rising moon, a U.S. Flying Fortress thundered into the Jap harbor at Rabaul one night several months ago to make the first test in the South Pacific of a new technique-"skip-bombing...
WASHINGTON--The U. S. Aircraft Carrier Hornet went down swinging, her planes scoring hits on 12 Jap warships and three auxillaries, sinking four transports and destroying at least 60 Jap planes in five fierce months of fighting before she perished Oct. 26, an official Navy obituary of the gallant craft revealed tonight...