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...picked out a house with a big green roof, Jap headquarters, and I lined it up a mile away. The explosion from that bomb knocked the plane right out from under us and the seat hit us hard We bombed a couple of barracks...
...words. On scores of airfields near Vladivostok (only 685 miles from Tokyo) hundreds of Soviet airplanes were tuned for action. Soon the weather would permit re-inforocements (if Soviet-Japanese neutrality lapsed into war) to be flown from the U.S. via Alaska. Ready to face the big Jap army in Manchukuo was a Red army (partially mechanized...
Poised for such a strike is a Jap army of 1,000,000 on the Manchukuoan frontier. Thousands of men are building new highways and railways over which the mechanized divisions would roll. Between 1934 and 1939 airfields along the Siberian border have been increased from 130 to 250. If Japan could afford the planes to stock these airfields and give her northern army aerial support, the chances of a drive on eastern Siberia would be better...
...Pacific war. Japan seems to be running out of her best fighters, the Navy "Zeros," which must be the spearheads of her defense against air attack. Last week the A.V.G.'s Brigadier General Claire Chennault reported from Burma that his U.S. fighter-pilots had destroyed more than 200 Jap pursuits. The Zeros are fast-climbing, highly maneuverable, highly powered (1,675-h.p.) single-seaters. And even the Zeros, despite their superior maneuverability, have been no match for the faster, Allison-engined P-40s and their superior U.S. pilots. Lieut. General George H. Brett, the United Nations air commander...
Where Were the Jap Planes...