World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Toward a Jap Defeat?

"Regardless of the enemy design," said the voice from Tokyo, "the war situation has increased with unprecedented seriousness—nay, furiousness." Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Air Force got its biggest weekly bag of the war: 27,000 tons of Jap shipping definitely sunk. > Against "negligible" resistance Admiral William F. Halsey's amphibious troops took the Green (Nissan) Islands between Bougainville and New Ireland, cut off an estimated 22,000 Japs in the Northern Solomons, ended the Solomons campaign. > Rabaul declined further as an effective Jap base as...