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...Sixty Jap planes (40 of them bombers) plastered Allied-held Oro Bay in New Guinea...
...attacks on Oro Bay and Guadalcanal the Japs lost 31 planes. Liberators and Flying Fortresses of MacArthur's command, in three assaults on Kavieng, sank two Jap cruisers and a destroyer, damaged other warships and merchantmen...
...appeared in the South Pacific last week. For months only handfuls of Japanese raiders had stung Allied bases in New Guinea and the Solomons. Suddenly they swarmed out in force. Twenty-six bombers and eleven fighters struck at Wau, the airfield closest to Jap-held Salamaua. Forty raiders attacked Oro Bay south of Buna. Jap air strength, waning at the end of 1942, seemed to be surging back...
Married. Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux (The Virgin Bride, The Art of Love, Mayerling); and Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affairs in Vichy; both for the second time; in Vichy. Her first was French Cinedirector Henri Decoin; Rubirosa's first was Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the President of the Dominican Republic...
...groups were trying hard to convert into pro-war sentiment the quite comprehensible rage of the Mexican people against the Nazis who had killed 13 of the Potrero del Llano's 35-man crew, 14 of the Faja de Oro's 41. A procession of the Potrero's survivors, bearing with them the body of Engineer Rodolfo Chacon Castro, who had died of wounds in a Miami hospital, moved south from San Antonio, Tex. It was predicted that 100,000 would greet the cortege when it arrived in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, where...