Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neel Kearby, one of the great U.S. fighter pilots of World War II, signed off. Next word to reach his pretty, auburn-haired wife, Virginia, and their three husky little boys in San Antonio, Tex. was the dreaded War Department telegram: Colonel Kearby was missing in action in the Southwest Pacific...
Also missing in the Southwest Pacific this week was Lieut. Colonel Thomas J. Lynch, Army pilot from Catasauqua, Pa., who had rolled up 20 confirmed victories over the Japs. But other aces were carrying on; new aces were being dealt from the U.S. deck. An Air Forces report disclosed that Captain Richard R. Bong (TIME, Aug. 9), famed Lightning pilot, had boosted his score to 25, pressing hard on the high mark of 26 shared by Marine Majors Joe Foss and Gregory Boyington (and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World...
This sudden attack last week in General Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific theater put U.S. forces athwart another enemy communication line, further isolated some 72,000 Japs-22,000 in the Solomons, 50,000 in New Britain-by Douglas MacArthur's accounting...
...southwest Pacific flyers under command of General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey were busy as beavers. During the week some 500 tons of bombs were dropped on Rabaul, finally made so untenable that no Jap fighters rose to intercept...
...Sixth were men of the southwest U.S., Indians from 20 Arizona and New Mexico tribes. The Marines were the valiant 1st Division, veterans of Guadalcanal...