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Airman Kenney. For this good news the U.S. could give George Kenney and his airmen much credit. Starting with worn-out planes and weary pilots, General Kenney in three months had: 1) all but knocked out what planes the Japs could spare to New Guinea; 2) helped to stop one Jap landing at Milne Bay and knocked out a Jap attempt to reinforce Buna; 3) bombed Jap bases in New Britain and the northern Solomons day after day to help the Marines hold Guadalcanal (see below). For a month George Kenney's pursuit planes had been so free...
Since May the monsoon had been India's best shield against the Japs. With that protection gone until another May, the question was whether enemy raids foretold a major Jap offensive. Out to explore possibilities went U.S. Brigadier General Clayton L. Bissell, chief of the 10th Air Force command, which embraces India, Burma and part of China. After a lengthy air tour General Bissell said that he had found no indication that the Japanese "are momentarily able to take on any large offensive...
Chennault himself revealed that his bombers had been in the air for twelve hours on the Linhsi raid. Thus they had not used the most advanced bases open to them. If those bases were utilized, U.S. bombers could, and no doubt would, hit at deeper, more vital sources of Jap power. The Japanese could see that, despite knotty U.S. supply problems, Chennault's forces were in a position to divert Japanese strength from the periphery of conquest to protect the Empire's heart. Looking toward such a time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's U.S. political adviser, Owen...
...Since Jap bombs gutted the earth which bore Confucius-the earth which for millenniums had been worked by patient, quiet peasants-delicate filigree landscapes, white herons over blue lakes at dawn, shimmering moonlit waters of Li Tai-po are less popular themes in Chinese art. Nowadays Chinese artists turn their talents against the little monkeys without tails who have ravaged their country. Sometimes their weapon is anger, but often it is the peculiarly Chinese weapon of mockery...
...erupted, denounced Baldwin, denied his charges. General MacArthur, incidentally disowning any political ambitions (see p. 21), duly announced he had received the utmost cooperation. But informed observers judged Baldwin was not far wrong, guessed the recent improvement of news from New Guinea, including the Allies' recapture of the Jap base at Kokoda, was one sign that Douglas MacArthur was already solving some very serious internal problems. If this was true, Washington had one good reason (among a lot of bad ones) for dividing the Pacific command. The Navy, steering clear of General MacArthur, had also avoided his Australian complications...