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...credit to the Fightin' Thirteenth, which has destroyed more than 1,300 Jap planes, sunk 500,000 tons of Jap shipping in its unbroken tour of duty from the New Hebrides, through Guadalcanal and the central Solomons, New Guinea and the Moluccas, to the Philippines and Borneo...
Military observers in Washington agreed, cited a significant parallel: last September, when Admiral Halsey began pounding the Philippines, the Jap flyers refused to come up and fight. But in October, at Leyte and in January at Luzon the Japs had plenty of planes ready for the invasion ships...
...their biggest strike to date, more than 600 Superforts took off in a single flight. Two announcements last week gave the Japs even more to worry about: 1) Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Eighth Air Force B-29s were due on Okinawa in mid-August; 2) R.A.F. Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd had been in Guam, presumably intent on fulfilling Winston Churchill's promise to send British land-based planes into the Jap...
...Hokkaido had failed to lure out the remnants of the Japanese air force. The weather over Hokkaido was foul; the low overcast blocked the efforts of flyers from Vice Admiral John S. McCain's flagship Shangri-La (and her many sister carriers) to find the fields where the Jap planes were supposed to be skulking. Not a single Kamikaze roared over the fleet...
Married. Warrant Officer George Ray Tweed, 43, Navy radioman who played Robinson Crusoe for two and a half years as a fugitive on Jap-held Guam; and Dolores Kramer, 29. War Department employe; she for the first time, he for the second (he filed suit for divorce from his first wife nine days after his return); in Washington...