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Army bombers, escorted by Lockheed P-38 fighters, dropped out of the Aleutian fogs and plastered Kiska harbor. Four Jap Zero fighters were shot down. An estimated 500 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded. The announcement that the long-range P-38s had been used foreshadowed a new technique in aerial bombardment.* The raids on Kiska also foreshadowed the day when U.S air power, flowing north over the new Canadian inland air route, may blast the Japs out of Kiska-and move on toward Tokyo...
Scar-lipped Major General George C. Kenney, new Allied air commander in the Southwest Pacific area (see p. 63), said his flyers were taking a five-to-one toll of Jap planes. But he added: "If anybody thinks we haven't got a fight on our hands down here they'd better roll over and start dreaming on the other side...
White Ants. By controlling the lower Solomons, the U.S. forces: 1) protected supply lines to Australia; 2) threatened the Jap naval system centered at Truk Island (TIME, Aug. 31); 3) poised for the recapture of more Jap-held territory. Jap strategy demanded that the U.S. be dislodged. The dislodging was not simple. U.S. marines shot Jap snipers out of trees, cursed the islands' hordes of white ants, doggedly and efficiently cleaned out nests of resistance (see p. 57). For five days in succession the Japs sent over bombing planes. On one of the first raids Marine Corps pilots...
Well in Hand. This was only one Jap attack. A week later the enemy made a landing attempt near San Jorge, off Santa Isabel, north of Guadalcanal. U.S. planes strafed their barges, sank their vessels, caused "heavy loss of life." The persistent Japanese returned and under the cover of darkness put men and supplies ashore on the northern tip of Guadalcanal, to reinforce their guerrilla bands in the interior. Day after day, vengeful Jap bombers with their fighter escorts drummed overhead, dropping their explosives. Even submarines crept in close to Tulagi, tried to shell the Marines...
Last week U.S. planes replied in kind, dive-bombed Jap installations in Gizo Island in the New Georgia group...