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...Brereton's lively brown eyes took in two familiar shapes: a pair of Flying Fortresses, in their dull camouflage, standing on the tarmac. Seventeen days had passed since he led them on a flight to the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, where their bombs socked a Jap cruiser and a Jap troopship. On this Sunday morning, he had flown to the airdrome to reward the Fortress crews with Silver Stars* for their coolness and success under Japanese anti-aircraft and fighter fire. That honorable duty done (including the acceptance of a Silver Star himself), he performed...
...from Defeat. On Dec. 7, Lewis Brereton was in the Philippines. He had been a major general, commanding one of the first Flying Fortress units in the Pacific, since July 11. He fought through the bitter days of plane losses on the ground and in the air to overwhelming Jap numbers. At last, after three weeks of uneven battle, rather than lose his remaining Fortresses and crews, he took them to Java...
...Jap had Corregidor and its three satellite forts between the jaws of his artillery. He bit down hardest on Corregidor, hurling shells from the heights of Bataan on the north and from the flats of Cavite on the east. He knew that The Rock was going to need a lot of pounding...
...odds on war between Japan and Russia before the end of 1942 shortened last week. From Chungking came word that the Japanese were speedily building defenses in Inner Mongolia, had already withdrawn some provincial-government departments behind the Great Wall. Allied Intelligence unearthed Jap plans to conscript native troops, to reinforce the army on the Manchukuoan-Siberian frontier...
...Honor; the Secretary of the Navy promoted him from lieutenant to lieutenant commander; his home town (St. Louis) gave him the wildest public ovation since Hero Lindbergh's return there 15 years ago. Thus 28-year-old Naval Aviator Edward H. O'Hare, who shot down five Jap bombers in the Pacific, damaged a sixth, in one flight from a U.S. aircraft carrier, had the week of his life...