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...reason for the failure of all Jap attempts to reinforce Guadalcanal strongly has been the lack of an intermediary airfield between the Bougainville group and Guadal, from which the Japs could send land-based fighters to protect convoys moving down "The Slot." At Munda, in the New Georgias, the Japs have desperately been trying to build such a field in the face of repeated U.S. air attacks...
...Japs also need an intermediate anchorage where small vessels-the craft of infiltration by sea-can pause before a night sneak to Guadal. Last week U.S. planes hunted down a new Jap hideaway in the New Georgia group. Wickham Anchorage lies hidden behind a long, narrow, palmy, hook-shaped island. It is only 120 miles from the main Jap positions on Guadal. Though the approaches are tricky, good-sized vessels can hide there. Last week a group of Jap cargo ships did. U.S. dive-bombers found them and in two attacks sank four. They also found quite a few landing...
...Days on Guadal...
...From Henderson Field at dawn, four more SBDs took off on search flights, Weary leading one section, Purdum the other. They sighted five destroyers just out of range for dive-bombing attack. Other pilots took off for antisub patrol off Tulagi, to smoke out Jap land positions on northwest Guadal, to search for some lost pilots...
...Frank, of Princeton and the University of Chicago, was a gentle guy, who carried books right to Guadal. The red-haired MacNair, big, burly and a slave laborer, was Flight Officer: he used to discuss religion and marriage and the mystery of becoming a father 6,000 miles from the delivery room. Bill Henry and Al Russell were incurable souvenir hunters who came out loaded with doodads like a couple of Cook's tourists. Ralph Weymouth, married to a French girl, talked world affairs. Neil Weary was the playboy. Dick Balenti was called The Chief because his Indian blood...