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...Chinese civilians, and no soldiers, were foolish enough to think that in two weeks of operation Chennault had broken the aerial back of the Jap. The force was too small, the pace too heavy, and the Jap was busy about many things. The China Air Force had given the world only a token of what air power could do in China. Newcomer Haynes told newspapermen what many an oldtime China pilot already knew: with more bombers, more fighters, the Jap could be pushed back into...
Port Moresby, the Allied base on the south coast of New Guinea, is more than the United Nations' last pitiful foothold in the rich empire of the Indies: it is a thorn in the paw of the Jap, By repeated bombings he has tried to shake it out. Last week he committed himself to a new operation: he would pluck it out with the bayonet...
...picked a time for his new landing party when Douglas MacArthur's usually competent airmen were inexplicably and disastrously off their stride. The week of butterfigered fielding of what was, aeronautically, a pop fly began when the Jap raided Port Moresby. Beyond flicking fragments from his daisy-cutter bombs through the tents of two sergeants and every stitch of their clothing, he did little damage. What rocked the United Nations force was that its crack anti-aircraftsmen, who had been nipping Nip bombers consistently (see p. 44), got not a single hit. It was a rotten show...
Next day the bombers went out in force. It was the chance of a lifetime and they threw the works at the Jap-100,000 lbs. of bombs. Elsewhere it would have been a small show; in the Australian area it was tremendous. Marksmanship was still wretched. For the expenditure of all that destruction, only one transport was set afire. The Jap made his beach head...
...third day the bombers sank a small transport and the work improved. But it was too late. The spring-legged, never-resting Jap had once again got where he had started out to go. Port Moresby was in greater peril than ever before...