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Island by Island. Whatever the objective of the next major blow in the Pacific, one thing is certain: the Navy has no present hope of drawing the Jap Fleet into conclusive combat, of destroying it and thus ending the Pacific war. In the central Pacific, Admiral Chester Nimitz has settled down to island-hopping...
...credit side, the B-26 did have a good combat record in the Pacific, where it pounded Jap ships and supplies. But the first squadrons to reach England last year ran into hard luck again...
What Price? The bombermen who saw the beginning of the combat lost sight of the Mustang in a dive. It seemed little better than a 1-in-100 chance that such gallantry could have survived such odds. But Eighth Air Force intelligence officers found that the odds had been cheated. Last week they identified the Mustang pilot as Major James H. Howard, of St. Louis. What was more, Major Howard had landed at his British base unscratched; even his ship had emerged from the maelstrom of Messerschmitts with nothing worse than one bullet hole in the wing...
Modest Major Howard's combat report last week claimed only two planes destroyed, two probables and one damaged. But the Confirmation Board which passes on his report may have the unusual duty of revising a victory claim upward. Shop-talking airmen in London this week understood that Major Howard was being recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...Douglas Aircraft proudly announced that it had "set a new world's record" in 1943 in the delivery of combat planes. In the current year, it predicted, it will be far ahead of any other producer in "weight and numbers...