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Then came the Fifth's blow at Rabaul. At least for the moment, Jap air power in the Southwest Pacific seemed to have been destroyed. But the Jap was still able and willing to send planes into combat. Over the weekend he lost 104 aircraft in the Solomons-New Guinea area...
Though it fly with the wings of angels, a combat aircraft is no demonstrable good until it has met and passed the final test of battle. Last week the U.S. had a glow ing report on the first combat performance of its newest fighter plane, the Navy's Grumman Hellcat (F6F). It also got a well-documented secondary report on the Vought Corsair (F4U), already one of the hottest things in the Pacific...
Missing in Action. Lieut. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 21, older son of the Ambassador to Britain; after an Eighth Air Force raid on Münster, his 13th combat mission. Fellow flyers reported seeing parachutes float from his Flying Fortress Tech Supply, shot down in an attack by three enemy fighters. A Princeton sophomore when he joined the Army Air Forces last year, the handsome, taciturn pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first U.S. shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa over 300 miles of hot enemy territory with 75 flak holes...
...Pursuit of Power. Yet the quest for more power in combat aircraft goes on. The new superbombers which General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold seriously promised would make "the Fortresses of today . . . the medium bombers of tomorrow" will see service before this war is over. New fighters, which should be better than anything now flying in combat, are now flying in test before production...
...correspondents killed in action had risen to ten. U.S. correspondent casualties had already reached a more impressive total: 13 dead, three missing and presumed dead, 67 wounded. With these figures before him, General Dwight Eisenhower issued a peremptory order: hereafter correspondents will stop driving ahead of advanced combat troops...