Show ir VOLCANOES r Y h q w F 1 4 k z g gI I j 4 4 44 A f Ba s 7 i S p n Cape I PEN Praed I. I Pt f Blanche Boy Bay s Raluana Pt NEW o NEW IRELAND Pacific lIb u l Ocean NEW NEW BRITAIN 01 I o S. S NEW GUINEA Mund J SOLOMON ISLANDS by N yU y U. U. U S. S Army Air Forces Photo From N E A A. A Target for Allied Air Attacks Crammed with ships great harbor on New Britain is also the eventual objective of the Au Australian American drives norf northward aE I through New Guinea and the So Solomons Hundreds planes and ships have been destroyed here by bombing raids Map at left shows location of with reference reference reference refer refer- ence to allied bases U. U S. S Raids Again gain Destroying Planes ALLIED H HEADQUARTERS ARTERS Southwest Pacific Oct 26 2 IP lP the heart of Japanese air air might in the southwest Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa- Pa Pa Pa- has been completely ly overpowered and strewn with the t. wreckage b b. of tf iii t planes in f- f four recent daylight J i-i i assaults LU by OJ J hun hun- b b. t of General MacArthurs MacArthur's bombers and fighters Tuesdays Tuesday's disclosed the results of the third and fourth raids by nearly planes Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day and Sunday Sunday enemy aircraft aircraft aircraft air air- craft certainly wiped out and 45 others probably destroyed This mounting disaster at Japans Japan's Japans Japan's Japans Japan's Ja Ja- Ja- Ja pans pan's New Britain air fortress over overa a day 12 period from October 12 to 24 has been achieved at a price o onlY 12 2 ders tP Q Lightning fig fighters and two Mitchell bombers were lost hi t attacks attacks- but both er t an the crew o of one one bomber bombe were sa saved v d. d Toll lilts Bits SOO wJ Tot Total l air all losses Of e Japanese listed in Tuesdays Tuesday's accounts of widespread operations were vere 20 which raised to f. f proximately the number of enemy planes panes bagged within the last two- two week weel period in the south and southwest Pacific Nearly 50 Liberators heavily screened by fighters opened the latest attack on Saturday afternoon Making Malting a feint as if to attack warships in the harbor harbor- the warships began to zigzag frantically fran Iran the tha the big bombers flew their tons of bombs to the ai airdrome drome Twenty grounded planes were destroyed for certain seven others probably Fifty enemy nemy planes swarmed to the attack The Liberators downed four for certain eight probably The tagged 11 certainly certain certain- ly and claimed five live There were viere ere no allied losses Sunday Gunday more than 50 Mitchell medium bombers escorted by nearly baffled d Ra- Ra bauls baul's antiaircraft defenses as they had done October 12 and 18 by going in barely above the surface o of the sea Bag 35 The Mitchells wiped out 45 flaming flam flam- ing Irig bombers on the ground with machine gun and cannon fire and probably a accounted counted for 10 others Upward of 70 Japanese planes battled the raiders in a one-hour one running fight The bagged 35 of these for certain cerain and the Mitch Mitchells ells eight Fifteen others probably crashed Japanese al airdrome drome fac facilities and gun positions were badly smashed in addition to the plane losses The destruction and probable destruction destruction destruction de de- de- de of a total of planes for the two days accounted for the bulk of the planes spotted on three airdromes October 19 by MacArthurs MacArthur's aerial reconnaissance- reconnaissance photographic units Tuesdays Tuesday's reported ted the d destruction of f 22 planes anes in n American air raids raIds- last Friday in inthe the Choiseul sector of of the Solomons and the sinking of a a. Japanese destroyer off olf Cape Orford New Britain U. U S 'S S. S Soldier in England Given Death Sentence MARLBOROUGH England Oct 26 U A 2 A United States court- court martial Tuesday sentenced Private Lee A. A Davis 18 of Temple Texas to hang for the slaying of Cynthia June Lay 19 and an attack upon Muriel Joyce Rosaline 22 The girls were on their way to toa toa toa a hospital wh where re b both th were employed employed em em- employed when they were waylaid the night t of f September 28 Admits Espionage DETROIT Oct 26 UP Grace UP-Grace Grace Buchanan Dineen 31 alleged head of the American branch of an in international international in- in spy ring pleaded gull gull- ty to charges of espionage in federal federal federal fed fed- eral court Tuesday S S |