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...Runway. Since Jimmy Doolittle's deed of April 18, the Japanese have been quite naturally obsessed by fear that the United Nations will use China as a base for large-scale bombing attacks on Japan, as well as on Formosa, Hainan, Indo-China and other Japanese outpost bases. Particularly suited for such use would be the peninsula of Shantung Province, which reaches out toward Japan like an angry fist, and the great bulge of Chekiang Province, within four-motor range of half of Japan...
...rifle pits on the outpost line, U.S. soldiers looked up as the ships snarled past, grinned at the star cockades on their fuselages. Few minutes later they heard some joyful sounds. Less than 15 miles north of the front line, over the wrecked naval station at Olongapo on Subic Bay, the P-4Os peeled out of formation, and the howl of their engines rolled down the peninsula. The men on the ground could hear the crump of bombs, the clatter of .50-caliber guns. From the mountaintops, outposts saw the P-40s whip up from the attack, roll over, dive...
...pointed out that even before the war started the Philippines were surrounded on three sides by Japanese power--immediately following the Pearl Harbor attack, he said, the Japanese moved down on either side of the Philippines to numerous points south of them and thereby completed encirclement of this American outpost...
Carrier planes flew through a violent storm-some 50 feet above the water, some 12,000 feet in the air, to escape rain and clouds. They found a minor outpost, bombed and strafed what little there was. Most of the eleven U.S. planes lost in the whole assault went down in this storm...
Well fortified, with its 1,089-foot Pyramids looking far to sea, Fernando de Noronha should make a bristling outpost between South America and Dakar. On the six-by-two-mile island there is already a small airfield, built by Air France before the war. Since the war began, Brazil has been building hangars and fortifications...