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Added Correspondent Woodward : "There is no sure defense against the Kamikaze. More than 90% of them are picked off by the Combat Air Patrol and the ships' gunners. A small proportion go into the water through their own ineptitude. A few . . . have ditched their planes in the water and have been taken prisoner. The ones that carry out their mission do tremendous damage and cause great loss of life among American crews...
...Japanese bombs and turned into a floating inferno (TIME, May 28), the same fate befell her elder, more experienced sister, the Bunker Hill. The circumstances were astonishingly similar: the ship was at flight quarters (launching planes). The enemy aircraft dived through the Bunker Hill's own combat air patrol so suddenly that they could not be splashed by U.S. fighters...
Orders are for G.I.s to get out fast from such commotions, under no circumstances to start a brawl in defense of what they believe to be their rights. Now M.P.s in white painted jeeps patrol Chungking's main street. They work with the Chinese police whose orders are to break up demonstrations. The municipal government is planning to license eight dance halls (heretofore banned) to give Americans some safe recreation. It is also trying to explain to the Chinese people that the Americans are a curious people who just want to talk and go out with women. Said Chungking...
...Then a large plane carrying a 500-or 1,000-lb. bomb came from the starboard. Mount 2 put a 5-inch projectile squarely into it and the plane disintegrated 200 yards from us. Another plane apparently hit by the air patrol came by in a mass of flame and crashed off the port bow. The next Jap plane knocked off the other yardarm and crashed alongside. The last plane approached from the starboard and dropped a bomb amidships, killing several men in the wardroom where a doctor was treating the wounded...
...officers & men. Last week the Navy announced that it had added 100,000 vessels (above the size of boats) to the 7,695 it had in commission on Dec. 7, 1941. The breakdown: 1,150 combatant ships; 557 auxiliaries; 82,266 landing ships and landing craft; the balance, patrol and mine craft...