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Watching Tojo. But from the north more menacing news sifted down into Sydney's bars and restaurants. Back of his screen of islands the Jap was massing again, at Rabaul in New Britain, at Lae and Salamaua on the east coast of New Guinea, and at more remote points in the Indies. Douglas MacArthur's airmen, after a full share with the Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea, went back to work on the Jap's hideouts. They fired buildings and planes at Lae, hit heavily at Rabaul, ranged 700 miles north...
...enemy threw his greatest aerial attack yet, a raid by 26 bombers escorted by nine Zeros. The base went on operating. It had to. Bombers operating from there and the north Australian bases are doing something besides bombing the enemy. They are also watching him. By the time the Jap moves south again, their reconnaissance reports may turn out to be more important than all the damage they have done...
Watching Uncle Sam. The Jap worked hard for the same kind of information. From surface vessels and his "stationary carriers" in the islands, his patrol planes ranged far & wide. This week the Jap broadcast some of his findings from Tokyo. Tokyo's story was that a heavy U.S. task force, centered on the carriers Hornet and Enterprise, was 580 miles east of the Solomon Islands, only 30 hours' steaming from the Coral Sea. If the Jap could be believed, the South Pacific lapped at the edges of a naval and air battle that could make the Coral...
After five years of heart-searing battle, China faced the most serious threat of the war-the beginning of a new Jap campaign to storm her back door...
...Jap had cut the road that was China's lifeline to the fighting wealth of her allies. Now he charged with terrifying speed into the flank of her ragged fighters, defying analysis of his advance by the dazzling multiplicity of his spearheads. The Jap flung his main force in a curiously variegated pattern. Above Lashio, some 100 miles, he branched into two forks, sent one column north to Myitkyina, where he established an air base. Another column swung northeast up the Burma Road...