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SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA-- Flying Fortresses gave the Japanese base of Rabaul one of its heaviest beatings of the war during the night. But the thing that tickled the squadron leader the most was that the Japs were being robbed of sleep...
...bombers continued to attack the Japs at Salamaua and Lae in northern New Guinea and at Rabaul in New Britain. By land, air & sea, troops would have to follow the bombers before the Pacific Allies finished what they had begun in Papua and the Solomons...
Above the thin shimmering water-slash of a rising moon, a U.S. Flying Fortress thundered into the Jap harbor at Rabaul one night several months ago to make the first test in the South Pacific of a new technique-"skip-bombing...
...Whitey" was his deputy commander, Brigadier General Ennis C. Whitehead. "Em" was the Japanese concentration at Rabaul. Rabaul Peninsula lies at the northern tip of New Britain, 480 air miles from Moresby. It looks not unlike the cocked hammer of a pistol, and like a pistol the Japanese have pointed it at the Allies in the Southwest Pacific. Kenney's planes had hit it before, but not in the strength he wanted. Now Whitehead had met him at the airdrome with the news that his strength was mustered: two squadrons of Flying Fortresses, one of B-24 Liberators...
Next morning, before the sun began to smother Moresby in equatorial heat, three Fortresses droned north. Reconnaissance photographs had revealed a larger concentration of Jap ships in Rabaul Harbor than usual, and some 40 planes on adjacent airdromes. The vanguard of Fortresses ignored the ships, dropped their 500-lb. bombs on the planes. How many they smashed the darkness concealed, but fewer than 20 rose to meet the 30-odd U.S. bombers which struck the harbor's clustered ships at noon. Five of these went down before the squadrons' .50-caliber guns. Nine, possibly ten, warships were left...