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...official review listed the A.V.G. score: 284 Jap planes destroyed in seven months, as many more probably destroyed, ten A.V.G. pilots and one crew chief killed in action, nine flyers killed in accidents. An A.V.G. squadron had a last flight, shooting down at least six Japs over Hengyang. The Generalissimo gave a dinner for General Chennault. Then, as they all knew it must, came July 4 and with it the formal end of the American Volunteer Group...
...their best pilots, newly commissioned Major "Tex" Hill of San Antonio, commanded the Army squadron which they joined. At the head of their Army group was Colonel Robert L. Scott Jr., a regular who had put in his time with the A.V.G., specializing in one-man raids on Jap airdromes and troops. Brigadier General Chennault commanded all U.S. air forces in China...
...some official quarters in Washington attempts were made to shrug off the obscure Jap moves in the Aleutians as feints or minor encroachments. But the U.S. had reason to worry. Kiska has not only a good harbor but some flat land for airfields. The busy little Japs were under cover of Aleutian fog, and probably building air and submarine bases, emplacing anti-aircraft guns, sneaking in shells, bombs and torpedoes. Apparently anticipating a Japanese move east to Atka Island and northeast to the Pribilof Islands, the Army announced the evacuation of 550 natives to southeastern Alaska...
Since the Battle of the Coral Sea the Japs had done little but raid Darwin and Port Moresby inconclusively. To these attacks, bombers under General MacArthur's command had replied with raids on Jap bases in New Britain, New Guinea, Timor and one 800-mile thrust at Celebes. But, by the standards of global war, this was relative quiet along a South Pacific front which three months ago seemed destined for more of the war's hottest fighting...
...burlap scare started when Jap warships swooped into the Bay of Bengal, threatened to cut supply lines to India-source of 99% of world jute, from which burlap is made. With U.S. burlap stockpiles down to a bare three months' supply, something had to be done. It was. In March, WPB rated cotton-bagging at A2, only one notch below military cotton cloth. Month later Washington went a step further, forced all heavy-goods cotton mills to put 20-40% of their looms on cotton-bagging...