World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Token Threat

Of all combat arms of Allied power, the Fourteenth Air Force alone stands within striking distance of the soft exposed vitals of the Japanese Empire. The recent arrival of a fleet of four-motored Liberator bombers enabled the Fourteenth Air Force last week to strike harder and deeper than ever before at those vitals.

In the biggest bombing raid thus far launched from Chinese bases, the big Liberators swept out over the blue expanse of the Gulf of Tonkin toward Hainan Island, twelve miles off the southeast tip of China, 1,500 miles southwest of Japan proper. Full-bosomed, oversized nudes, painted on...