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...battle of Australia had patently entered a new phase. Australia itself now waved no flags, hung up no bunting for the victory in the Battle of the Coral...
...screen of islands the Jap was massing again, at Rabaul in New Britain, at Lae and Salamaua on the east coast of New Guinea, and at more remote points in the Indies. Douglas MacArthur's airmen, after a full share with the Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea, went back to work on the Jap's hideouts. They fired buildings and planes at Lae, hit heavily at Rabaul, ranged 700 miles north to the old Dutch naval, base at Amboina, where they fired docks and potted three small freighters. The Jap sent up swarms of Zeros...
...Battle of the Coral Sea (see p. 18), where his attempt to break through to the outside across the United Nations' sea lines of communication was smashed. The other was the taking of Madagascar by the British...
...nation on the second anniversary of his Prime Ministership, Winston Churchill said in effect that the turning point in World War II had arrived. He said it persuasively. Nothing bucks up a Prime Minister like victories, and Churchill had Madagascar, the terrific R.A.F. raids on Germany, and the Coral Sea to bolster his spirits...
...other side of the world, in the shell-blasted smoke-haze of the Battle of the Coral Sea (see p. 18), swarms of bee-bodied Navy fighter planes had just proved prime factors in the United Nations' decisive victory. The planes were Grumman Wildcats, the only fighters used by U.S. aircraft carriers...