To Washington last week hurried Colonel Frederick Smith, deputy chief of staff of MacArthur's Fifth Air Force, fresh from the Pacific theater with a lot of information and permission to spill some of it. This was his estimate of Jap air power there:
"The Japanese are getting set for air operations in New Guinea. They're turning Wewak into a second Rabaul, so that they now have major air concentrations in two directions from Port Moresby, both about 300 miles away. . . .
"The best Jap plane we've run into is the improved Zero, which we call the Hap. It has...
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