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Over the weekend Jap losses mounted. Raiding Darwin, they lost 12 planes destroyed, 12 damaged. Next day they sent 36 Zeros to attack Lae, New Guinea, were met by U.S. Lightnings. Result: 14 Zeros shot down, 9 more set afire...
...muleback trip from Buna or Lae to the base hospital at Port Moresby. But Army hospital planes made it in 45 minutes, evacuated 17,000 men during the recent campaign. Since their organization last December,* the Air Forces' Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadrons have moved in New Guinea and Tunisia, or lugged to the U.S. from the Southwest Pacific, Alaska, Africa or India, or shuttled around the U.S. 50,000 ill and wounded men. Only two deaths have occurred in flight. Creator of the system: the A.A.F.'s air surgeon, Brigadier General David N. W. Grant...
...Southwest Pacific theater. The weight of bombs dropped in a recently stepped-up campaign against the Japanese in the area is another. Last week the heavy bombers of Lieut. General George C. Kenney, Allied air chief in the Southwest Pacific, made a record raid on the Japanese stronghold of Lae, 180 mi. north and across the mountains from Moresby. The record: 36 tons of bombs, or the equivalent of twelve fully loaded Flying Fortresses...
...Spot. Most of the Allied raids which trip-hammered the Japanese last week were flown from the Port Moresby area. Most of these were directed against the New Guinea base of Lae and its surrounding airfields, and against Rabaul, pivot point of Japanese power in the New Guinea-New Britain theater. For this there was a double reason...
...another had fought through Burma, another through Malaya. For some time a pool of perhaps 250-300 aircraft had been gradually building up at Rabaul, a reserve pool and a Zero assembly plant at Kavieng. Wewak on New Guinea had been developed into an advance base, now that the Lae-Salamaua area of eastern New Guinea was so clearly dominated by Allied power...