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Springtime in Darwin. Picking up fugitive flyers from Bataan and Java, including the early-famed Buzz Wagner, the Eighth and Ninth squadrons followed the Seventh northward, reaching Darwin bases in time for the big Japanese raid on April 25. In that first real baptism of fire, the Forty-niners bagged 24 Jap bombers and nine fighters without suffering a single loss. By Aug. 1, six months after arriving in Australia, they had run their score to 60, had lost only three pilots. On Aug. 12 they received a Presidential unit citation, then plunged into the battle for New Guinea...
This move gave the Germans more worries: Patton was evidently trying to swing his right arm into a south-to-north assault. The wheeling movement appeared to be coordinated with a new northward attack by Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army...
...dawn assault without the usual artillery preparation, caught the Germans napping. In two days the Seventh's men had taken Haguenau, the enemy's anchor point along the Rhine, 16 miles above Strasbourg. Beyond Haguenau was the 25-mile-wide Rhine plain. If Patch's northward thrust could be developed, the whole Saar Palatinate area would be outflanked...
South of Germany three Russian armies were now in action. One army, stalled at Budapest, had pivoted northward, by week's end had captured Miskolc, fortified and held by the Germans as a bastion of northern Hungary. Farther east a second had sprung to life, attacked in the mountains of Slovakia. Moscow did not announce it until last week, but in mid-November a third army had joined in, crossing the Danube 130 miles below Budapest...
Dead-End Road. If Kweiyang were to go as nine other U.S. bases had gone, the Japs would be in a position to: 1) advance northward along the Burma Road toward Chungking itself; 2) turn southwest toward Kunming or northwest to Pichieh and cut the best alternate road over which U.S. supplies might move in quantity, once the Burma end of the Road was cleared (see below...