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...thinking (including CINCPAC Admiral Chester Nimitz), is the type of ships the subs specialize in sinking: Japan's hard-pressed tankers. It may have been U.S. submarines, not U.S. battleships or carriers, that forced the Japs to pull a big segment of their fleet out of Truk-because a shortage of tankers may have prevented adequate deliveries...
...Pacific, U.S. air power thundered through the islands. Land-based Liberators bombed Truk for the first time. Long-range, Aleutian-based Army and Navy planes pecked at the Kuriles. One lone Army Liberator swung past Paramushiro all the way to Matsuwa, 1,100 miles north of Tokyo...
...MacArthur's unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be MacArthur's next target...
Only five days after his task force had struck savagely at Truk Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher was hitting the Japs again: this time the Marianas Islands, 650 miles northwest of Truk, 1,400 miles south of Tokyo, were the targets...
...manner of achievement was more startling than the figures. This time the surprise of the Kwajalein invasion and the Truk carrier blow was missing. The Japs detected Mitscher's force many hours away, sent wave after wave of planes against it. During the night, antiaircraft gunners aboard the carriers and their protective ships knocked down fourteen. Hellcats shot down five others which attacked the force during the morning. The fact that no U.S. ship was sunk (and none admitted to be damaged) provided the best vindication of the carrier's ability to meet land-based planes. Superior numbers...