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Last month Major Richard Ira Bong, a P-38 Lightning pilot, shot down his 26th and 27th planes over New Guinea, breaking a tie which had long existed between two marine pilots, Major Joe Foss (Grumman Wildcat) and missing Major Gregory Boyington (Vought Corsair). Thus Dick Bong became the U.S. Ace of Aces...
MacArthur's sweep west along the New Guinea coast, spearheaded and backed by the greatest concentration of naval power he had ever had, had given the U.S. new airfields 500 miles closer to the enemy's inner positions. From the three big airdromes at Hollandia (on which U.S. engineers worked this week), U.S. long-range bombers can now reach the southern tip of the Philippines (although with minimum loads), can also bite heavily into the Jap chain from the onetime Dutch naval base at Amboina, up through the Pacific arc to Guam...
Meeting without Sparks. The drive along the New Guinea coast had taken a lot of good staff work. Months before, the South Pacific command of Admiral William "Bull" Halsey had been wiped out by the converging forces of MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz. Army and Navy scuttlebutt had been that sparks would fly when the General and Admiral Nimitz came to ironing out the question of who would do what and who would command what...
...wrong. The commands got closely together on plans last February when MacArthur's top staffers, headed by his Chief, self-effacing Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland, went north to Pearl Harbor to meet with the Navy people. Late in March, frosty-haired Chester Nimitz went down to New Guinea for a huddle with MacArthur...
This week, with a fine collection of staging points for troops, harbors for naval craft and fields for aircraft strung along New Guinea's coast, MacArthur set his bombers at pounding westward, beyond the big island's tip, at the Jap base at Timor. Like other air assaults all the way north to the Kurils, it was only a succession of tentative jabs. But the jabs would be followed, somewhere along the Japs' defensive arc, by a heavy blow. The Pacific was being set for another great assault...