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...KENNEY ROLLS...
...trap after another. Bombers and artillery, concentrating on the Japs' encircled positions, pulverized them before Allied troops moved in. The enemy scattered and fled or died. Up to this week some 6,300 Jap dead had been counted. Given a free hand by MacArthur, Lieut. General George Kenney turned his Fifth Air Force against Madang, 200 miles beyond Finschhaven...
...capture of Finschhaven, MacArthurs's forces will be separated by only 70 miles of water from horn-shaped New Britain, which points at New Guinea. Liberators in one raid last week pounded the horn's point with 94 tons of bombs-a heavy raid for that theater. Kenney's fighters flew 250 miles from their base to strafe enemy shipping and installations in , the horn's curve. At the horn's far end stands Rabaul, the enemy's key position in the area and the logical climax of the General's blitz...
...across the Southern Pacific front, air attacks against the Japanese intensified. The Fifth Air Force struck again at Wewak, to which the Japs rushed another supply of planes after Kenney's pilots wiped out their nest three weeks ago. Flying Fortresses destroyed ten Jap bombers on the ground, knocked out probably 59 fighters of 70-80 that rose to intercept them...
Second Team. Worse luck for the Jap was his inability to scrape together enough air strength at any one place to stop the" Allied air power that kept hitting him in every spot. Last week, when Lieut. General George Kenney decided to force a showdown for air control over central New Guinea, the Jap took the worst licking he has taken yet in the air. He had massed a strong force along the 35-mile-long chain of airfields at Wewak. Over this nest U.S. planes roared. Said Kenney's deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will...