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King on Losses: "We still haven't got enough stuff to be everywhere, but we'll keep a close eye on the Aleutians. No one can say what the Japs planned there, but it has cost them tremendously. The attrition has been very heavy. In the Solomons the Jap's planes have been shot down by the hundreds, his ships have been sunk by the tens, and he's lost men by the hundreds certainly...
...Brigadier General Claire Chennault's China-based air forces, in their most destructive raid of the war, blasted Haiphong in Indo-China, destroying shipping and munition dumps. Chennault's tactics were brilliant. Lightning-like, he struck around the compass. R.A.F. and U.S. pilots from India attacked Jap airdromes in Thailand and Burma. And in Yunnan, China's southernmost province, the troops of General Chiang Kai-shek waited in the jungles...
...Burma Road, over which they could transport medicine and materiel, move their men back to base hospitals. For the Chinese the section of the Burma Road which they held, winding on north to Chungking, was a broken, impassable trail. They themselves had destroyed it to forestall any further Jap advance...
Feats of the 19th furnish the best evidence to a country suddenly thrown into war that Americans have not lost courage. Captain Hewitt T. ("Shorty") Wheless' 75-mile battle with 18 Jap Zeros was the subject of a Presidential broadcast. Wheless' fellow Texan, Captain Alvin John Henry Mueller, also a winner of the D.S.C., brought his B-17 back with 1,400 bullet holes...
Major Jack Dougherty's bombs stuck. "Let's dive bomb," said Lieut. Ed Magee. The Fortress' wings held on miraculously; the bombs came out; the Jap transport sank. Lieut. Colonel James T. Connally (Senator Tom's cousin), Commander of the 19th from April until July, sank a cruiser, a destroyer, a large transport, at least four other vessels, scored four hits on a battleship. The 19th's Captain Frank Bostrom flew MacArthur into Australia...