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...hint of waxing Jap air power appeared in the South Pacific last week. For months only handfuls of Japanese raiders had stung Allied bases in New Guinea and the Solomons. Suddenly they swarmed out in force. Twenty-six bombers and eleven fighters struck at Wau, the airfield closest to Jap-held Salamaua. Forty raiders attacked Oro Bay south of Buna. Jap air strength, waning at the end of 1942, seemed to be surging back...
...Indies and Portuguese Timor, saw disquieting signs" of Jap activity. Both General Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister Curtin of Australia understood that the smashing U.S. victory in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15) had not guaranteed the security of Australia and the Allied positions in New Guinea...
...Bismarck victory had proved only that the airmen under Douglas MacArthur knew how to use what tools they had at hand. Real security could come only when planes and fuel were available in far greater quantities, and when the Japs had been completely driven out of the Solomons, New Guinea, New Britain and their important bases on Timor...
They were Japanese ships, headed toward New Guinea. The news was an answer to Lieut. General George C. Kenney's prayers. Taking cover under the gathering storm, a Japanese convoy had slipped out of Rabaul and was edging down the dark New Britain coast with reinforcements for Lae, main Jap base in New Guinea. The Japs, driven out of Guadalcanal and Papua, were obviously pouring men and supplies into the chinks of their outposts north of Australia...
...concentration of ships and their escorting aircraft. Bombers operating at all angles and altitudes had shown new accuracy. But heavy and medium bombers, coming in low, had dealt the deathblows. U.S. airmen's bumbling failure to halt or even hit a similar Jap convoy bound for New Guinea last July had been retrieved...