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Sept. 12.-Aircraft and submarines started shadowing the convoy. Six bombers made a high-level attack. Then 40 to 50 torpedo bombers came down in close formation. Ack-ack got five. Carrier-based planes got five more. Enemy mine layers then appeared, and the convoy's minesweepers went into action. Later nine more torpedo bombers attacked, but were kept at a safe distance. Two were downed. At dusk came a third contingent of twelve. Six were sent crashing into...
...oily blue-blackness of smoke, the strange black flowers and white streamers painted on the sky by planes and bursting ack-ack, the mortal brilliance of blood-Technicolor vindicates the remark made about it at its birth a decade ago that "Now Hollywood is ready to film the Last Judgment." The film jumps crazily when the bombs rock the Hand; and the camera shifts again & again to the faces of two young Marines firing an anti-aircraft gun-not in fear, not in bloodthirst, but only intently, the way an outfielder watches a fly ball...
...General Claire Chennault and his Flying Tigers at the chief A.V.G. air base in China. He stayed on there with U.S. Army pilots when the A.V.G. was disbanded -ate with them, slept with them, flew with them while they strafed Jap ground troops all over eastern China-dodged Japanese ack-ack, dog-fought I-97s and Zeros, bombed ships, docks and factories up and down the Yangtze...
When the Aussies located the enemy they fought the invaders with pistols, knives and bayonets. Allied planes machine-gunning snipers in treetops, sheared the trees until they looked like hedgerows. Allied bombers raided the Jap base at Buna, which barked back with newly emplaced ack-ack guns. The righting was the heaviest yet seen in New Guinea; casualties ran high. But still the Japs kept coming. They fought their way up and over the highest ridges, started downhill after the slowly retreating Australians...
Down below us on the river was a large ship, and out of it came bursts of fire; balls of red flecked with white began shooting toward our plane. Japanese ack-ack guns and pom-poms were throwing everything but the kitchen sink at us. Then our plane began to tremble and shake, and from our belly red balls of fire began shooting down toward the Jap ship. Puffs of white smoke flowered in the air far below our plane. They were so far away I couldn't help laughing, but plainly we could see our tracers going straight...