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...Once-mighty Truk was attacked in daylight by a lone Navy search plane which bombed two supply ships in the harbor, then compounded the indignity by strafing an airfield...
...perhaps the quietest week of the year in the Pacific. While the world's eyes were on Europe, there were nothing but routine operations from Brisbane to Adak. Truk was bombed, and so was the phosphate-producing island of Nauru, which is isolated south of the Marshalls. In Dutch New Guinea, General Ma-Arthur's troops killed 398 more Japs and captured 173. It was announced that Thirteenth Air Force P39 Airacobras and dive bombers are now equipped with rocket guns, had sunk 40 supply barges in Rabaul harbor with the new equipment presumably mounted in clusters...
Allied observers and Japan's civilians could only speculate on the rest: was Koga killed in the U.S. air and naval raids on Truk and Palau on March 29? Was he intercepted by U.S. fighters en route to some Pacific base? Or did he, as Chungking suggested, honorably disembowel himself presumably in protest against the last naval reshuffle (TIME...
...longer necessary to sweep up every island base on the way to the south coast of China, the objective beyond the Philippines announced by Admiral Nimitz in February. The battered Jap base at Rabaul on New Britain could be bypassed, left to wither. So might the Jap fortress at Truk...
Bigger Game. The obvious aim of the operation was even bigger. On Feb. 16 Truk was first struck, but the Japanese pulled back their naval units. On Feb. 22 a similar blow was made at Saipan; again the Japanese drew back. Although they did not give up these islands-their garrisons will probably stay put till rooted out-this Japanese naval retirement meant that the Japanese had to withdraw their main seaborne supply route farther west, until it was out of U.S. reach...