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...perhaps the best evidence yet of interservice cooperation. Enough four-motored bombers (censors released a picture showing one of the crews in front of a Liberator) took part in the night flight from "an advanced airfield" (probably Midway) and back to carry seventy-six 1,000-lb. bombs. No Jap anti-aircraft was met until well after the first bombs had waked the Japs...
...INTACT STILL FIGHTING BADLY NEEDS BOOTS MONEY QUININE TOMMYGUN AMMUNITION." Soon the needs were flown in and the Sparrows went to work. They ambushed four Japanese officers and 50 men. They dynamited bridges and burned camps. They sniped and rushed and potshot until by last week they claimed 30 Jap officers and 500 men. They had lost exactly three Sparrows...
...them and they stood around eating it like men dreaming. Someone lowered the Stars & Stripes; someone else pulled a blue ensign up at the bow. But no one touched the ship's accomplishment flag on the periscope-a dodo bird rampant on a black field, with eleven little Jap flags sewn on the margin. At the bottom of the flag were the words: "so SOLLY...
...Club, ordered a beer. Then, like every returned skipper, he told his yarns. There were casual yarns, such as the one about how he had been playing bridge when an alarm came, so put down his hand warning no one to touch it, went to the periscope, sank a Jap, came back, made a grand slam. But there were also serious yarns about his successes. Eleven ships, he said, was a little optimistic: it included two he was not certain about and two fishing sampans. He had chased a loaded troopship for several hours, finally sunk it. Altogether...
...Christmas Day Boeing Flying Fortresses made their first 1,120-mile round-trip flight from Guadalcanal to the Jap base at Rabaul. They hit one large ship, damaged three smaller ones. On the day after Christmas 26% of Boeing Airplane Co.'s employes-who had had Christmas Day off-never showed...