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...Guinea jungles one day last week, Japanese troops, dug in for the defense of Lae, lifted their eyes to the skies and saw Kyoku Okuda's warning suddenly materialize. Rumbling overhead were Allied bombers, fighters and transports-the largest air armada ever assembled in the Southwest Pacific. From the transports hundreds of parachutes were dropping like blossoms into Markham Valley...
...still clung, to hit at the Jap supply route which winds through the jungles and along the shore. They smacked faraway Wewak, where the route begins, sank three 7,000-ton freighters in the harbor there, set a fourth transport and a destroyer ablaze. They smashed Jap headquarters at Lae with 84 tons of bombs...
...retreat, the Japs withdrew their air reinforcements from the airfields at Wewak to the safer refuge of Hollandia, 600 miles from the New Guinea front. At week's end, under air cover and a heavy naval bombardment, seaborne Australian troops made an end run around both Salamaua and Lae, staged a large-scale amphibious landing above Lae to cut off both Jap bases from their overland supply...
Sandy-haired, retiring Lieut. Richard R. Bong last week became the No. 1 American fighter pilot of the Southwest Pacific. Flying a twin-engined Lightning over Lae, he blasted down two Zeros and two Messerschmitts to boost his confirmed kills...
...corps two years ago, Dicks Bong helped his father with oat and potato crops at Poplar, Wis. (pop. 462). His first combat was in the Buna battle of Dec. 27, when he twice rang the bell with a Zero and a dive-bomber. During the smashing of the Lae convoy in early January he nailed three Zeros. He got another in the Bismarck Sea battle...