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Among the Navy's most important achievements were attacks on Jap convoys. One night a handful of U.S. destroyers shot up a whole fleet of transports. In the dingdong battle of the Coral Sea, two Japanese aircraft carriers and 18 other vessels were the victims. Meanwhile, with no to do, U.S. submarines have kept up a running campaign against the Jap supply lines...
They have achieved a formal unity of command in specific theaters-MacArthur in Australia, Admiral Nimitz in the Pacific, General Andrews in the Panama Canal area, etc. Yet in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Army bombed the Jap Fleet for three days without knowing, till Army pilots found the Navy in action, that the Navy was coming in too. Last fortnight came evidence that the Navy is keeping secrets from its Army superiors even in the vital Canal Zone (TIME, June 1). The minds of generals and admirals, although much improved by six months' education in real...
...China the spring-legged fury with which the Jap pressed his drives showed that he knew last week that he had begun a battle in which his greatest enemy was time. For China was in a desperate plight, and the Jap worked fast to make it hopeless...
With troops to spare after the collapse of the Philippines and Burma, the Jap shot them into the China front in a score of places. His steel noose encircled China from Hankow on the north through Hong Kong on the coast to Myitkyina on the Burma frontier. On the southwest (Burma) side he felt his way up the severed Burma Road, slithered up the valleys out of Siam and Indo-China. He met desperate resistance by Chinese troops, who stopped him time after time, only to find he had popped up somewhere else...
...Jap had planes. He knew where the foe was, could dodge or meet him as he chose. Except for the overworked, ill-equipped fighters of the A.V.G., the Chinese had none. They groped with ground reconnaissance until they met the enemy. And while they fought him foot to foot, they had to take all the punishment which he could mete out from...