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Last week a young man from Chipley, Ga. fell 17,000 feet through the Burma sky. His Curtiss P-40, shot out of control by a Jap, hurtled past him. At 7,000 feet he pulled his parachute cord. He saw another plane dart toward him, at first thought a Jap was trying to machine-gun him, then recognized a comrade from his squadron, convoying him to earth. The young man and his parachute plopped into a rice field. A Burmese farmer spewed mouthfuls of water on his bloody forehead. Others fed him, sped him back to his airdrome...
...last week's dark record of war in the Pacific with great valor and victories. Outnumbered, their slender stock of early-type P-40s diminished by ground strafing, crashes and a few casualties in the air, they still went by threes and sevens and tens against much larger Jap fighter-bomber formations. Said a spectator in Rangoon: "It looked like a fleet of rowboats attacking the Spanish Armada...
Their bags were phenomenal: 50 Jap planes in one week, according to some accounts. Their casualties were low: five pilots killed, a greater but unannounced number of planes lost up to last week. On their fuselages they daubed their crest: a jut-toothed tiger, flying through a Victory V (TIME...
Last week Pilot Billy bagged his seventh Jap. After one sortie, when Sandy landed his P-40 on the airdrome near Rangoon, a Jap fighter with machine guns spitting came wavering toward him. Sandy jumped into a ditch and the Jap crashed. When U.S. pilots reached his plane they found that the Jap had been wounded, had evidently been intent on a last victory in his crazy dive...
Pearl Harbor and anti-Jap songs began creeping up the lists. Citizens of middling age recalled the songs of earlier days, when melodies and sentiments were sweeter. It was doubtful that anyone will ever have the courage to write of 1942, in the vein of 1922: "He kissed her dreamily as from the nearby ballroom came the soft strains of I Paid My Income Tax Today...