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...Japs are bound to feel such losses, but they have many hundreds of planes tucked away on 60-odd airdromes along the arc from Java to the Solomons. After four raids on Vunakanau, Rapopo and Lakunai airfields near Rabaul within the last fortnight, American crews could still count around 200 Jap planes, and the force scattered along the south Pacific front probably totals 1.500 to 2,000-a good many more than the Allies have mustered in the same theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: 94-to-6 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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