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...Dangerous Situation. The New York Times's military analyst, Hanson Baldwin, who flew from the U.S. to the Solomons to look for himself, aptly described the Jap attack on the Marines as one prong of a three-pronged offensive. A second prong was feeling its way down the "impassable" Owen Stanley Mountain Range...
Month ago I.N.S.'s Jack Singer got aboard a torpedo plane and watched U.S. Navy flyers set the Jap carrier Ryuzyo afire off the Solomon Islands. His own bomber slipped a torpedo into the ship from less than 800 yards, survived some stubborn Jap Zeros, got home. Singer figured he was lucky to get back alive. But it made a swell combat story...
...Senators left the committee room, the Army showed that six Axis planes are shot down to each U.S. plane in combat. (If this success is owing to pilot excellence rather than plane capabilities, that is a good argument for not sending U.S. pilots out in flying coffins like the Jap Zeros. If U.S. planes were stripped of armor, puncture-proof tanks and parachutes to make them lighter-hence more maneuverable, and able to fight at higher altitudes-pilot loss, like the Japs', would be terrific...
...happen. "I wouldn't mind sitting here under this gun, looking up at the sky day after day, if something would just come along sometimes," said an anti-aircraftsman after six months on an island. "If I could just glance around one day and see a lot of Jap planes, boy, I'd be happy...
Luckiest was young Flying Tiger Peter Wright. He had stayed long enough in China to shoot down the last Jap plane killed by the A.V.G. before it disbanded. Then Peter Wright headed for Pittsburgh, where last week he married pretty, proud Mary Roberts...