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...Pilots reported that systematic bombing has virtually neutralized Rabaul, once-formidable key base of the Jap defenses in the Bismarck Archipelago. All enemy warships have been withdrawn from Rabaul; merchant shipping is less than 50% of normal...
...thickest in the Pacific, where two Marines-Major Joe Foss, and Major Gregory Boyington, who was killed in combat (TIME, Jan. 24)-have tied Rickenbacker's score of 26. Last week Lieut. Robert N. Hanson went hunting in his Corsair for his 26th victim near Rabaul, failed to return. Two other Marine pilots (Lieut. Kenneth Walsh, Captain Donald Aldrich) have destroyed 20 or more enemy planes...
...next blow might come in the south, and the enemy knows it. During the recent period of spectacular Central Pacific operations, Allied forces have never stopped applying steady, increasing pressure in New Guinea and the Solomons. Japan's vital Rabaul base has been savagely battered by Army & Navy air power based in the South Pacific. The next few weeks might well see a shifting of U.S. naval strength to that area...
...Australian troops were closing a trap around one Jap force while bombers at tacked the coastal base of Madang. U.S. troops on New Britain had widened their beachhead and Douglas MacArthur's planes steadily attacked the Admiralty Islands, through which Japan fed the axial base at Rabaul. From new bases in the northern Solomons U.S. planes battered that once-great Jap outpost, destroyed more than 400 Jap planes. Announced U.S. losses: 60 planes...
...breathless climbing and vicious fighting to an end by capturing Hill 660. A minor battle by global standards, it was also one of the bloodiest yet fought by the Marines in the Southwest Pacific. The dividend: early use of the Cape Gloucester airfield, whence bombers could strike at Rabaul...