On Sunday General MacArthur said: "If God stays with me I may get some remarkable results." By Thursday, the results tabulated, he said: "Almighty God blessed our arms."
Between the prayer and the thanksgiving, the U.S. Fifth Air Force had scraped together enough aircraft to dump 350 tons of bombs on Rabaul, Japan's Southwest Pacific air-sea bastion. The surprised Japs lost 60% of their Rabaul air forceĀ100 planes destroyed on the ground, 51 others damaged, 26 shot down. "Sunk or destroyed" were 119 ships ranging from tiny harbor craft to destroyers.
Lieut. General George C. Kenney, Commander of the Fifth, said that...
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