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Technically, the Eighth had completed its first year of operation from Britain:* on July 4, 1942, U.S. airmen in six medium bombers attacked a German airdrome in The Netherlands. On the strength of this fact, correspondents added up a year's operations: 265 Fortresses and Liberators, twelve medium bombers lost, some 1,200 German fighters destroyed, some 12,000 tons of bombs dropped in 75 raids on Occupied France, the Lowlands and Germany. Principal achievements: 1) the damage done to German submarine bases on the Atlantic coast; 2) the ending of all doubts that the Eighth's daylight...
This indictment got a partial reply last week when Allied Headquarters in North Africa revealed that broadcasting had begun with a new U.S. propaganda line over the first powerful U.S. transmitter (50 kilowatt, medium wave) in North Africa. Unlike past broadcasts from the U.S., the programs are not called the Voice of America but speak for all the United Nations from North Africa. They are dedicated to telling the news about the war, calmly, matter-of-factly, even when it is unfavorable to the United Nations...
...greater force than they had mustered for some time. Anticipating attacks on Salamaua and Lae, they were feeling out Allied positions, possibly planning to open a limited drive southeast to establish better defenses. But the Allied troops, now skilled in jungle warfare, tore into the Japs, killing 100. Boston medium bombers thundered low over the retreating enemy. After five days of scattered fighting the score of Jap casualties was 204. Planes continued to roar overhead daily, blasting supply dumps of an enemy whose supplies had long been bone-thin, strafing stubborn units which still persisted in helpless defense...
...noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies. Macassar had served the Jap well as an inner base through which to funnel supplies to forward areas. Last week there were six medium-sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely...
Malta and the Middle East Air Command in Egypt and Libya sent bombers against southern Italy and over Sicily's eastern coast, where the Siculi, the Phoenicians and the Greeks began the island's long cycle of invasion. American Fortresses, medium bombers, fighter-bombers and night-flying British Wellingtons attacked from Tunisia (but not as heavily as some U.S. headlines screamed). Compared with the climactic air offensive on Pantelleria, the week, in fact, was one of lull and preparation...