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Unpublished as yet in the U.S. was the full armament of the Jap's Navy Zero, which carries at least two 20-mm. cannon and light machine guns...
...reports on Avenger operations. Not so with the earlier model Wildcat. Last February, carrier-based Wildcats engaged Japanese land-based aircraft over the Marshall Islands, shot down ten fighters and three bombers without loss of a single U.S. plane. At Wake Island, two Marines in Wildcats sank a Jap cruiser with bombs. Lieut. Commander Edward ("Butch") O'Hare was at a Wildcat's controls when he bagged five Jap bombers and crippled another in a single engagement...
...earned $3,361,252, a new high; reported a net U.S. Government subsidy of $429,000, a new low. But the report also read like a military communique, for Pan Am is an instrument of U.S. policy and a weapon of global war. Though 38 Pan Am men are Jap prisoners, the news was mostly very good...
...still fight from the hills. Even if they did, Britain had the big harbor, could clean them out later, although the island is more than twice as big as Great Britain. But few thought that the French on Madagascar would show very persistent zeal. If France had let the Jap have Indo-China, there was little point in dying to save Madagascar from the British...
There was also little point in what the Axis had to say about being, for once, beaten to a strategic plum. Said the German Foreign Ministry: "Since Madagascar is far from any Axis base, the true reason for its occupation by the British is its wealth." The Jap sounded still sillier: "Radio Tokyo predicted the occupation. We are great prophets...