| Show Allies Allies' Bomb Shell laps Japs J ps p's Over Broad Expanse By the Associated P Press e s The allies loosed a torrent of air- air and and s sea borne destruction on Japanese positions over a broad expanse of the Pacific to keep up t the e unceasing assault on Nippo Nippon's s 's island empire ranging Far warplanes cascaded ed more than tons on enemy bases in the New Jew New Guinea-New Britain Brit Brit- am ain aln sector at Wake island and In Inthe int inthe t the e M Marshalls where an important important tant held enemy-held atoll was shelled by units of ot the Ute U. U S. S Pacific fleet Japans Japan's ability to supply holdings hold ings tugs far ar from home suffered a fresh setback with the disclosure by Secretary Knox nox that American submarines submarines' had sunk 12 more Nip Nipponese ponese ships snips raising the thc total to y vessels vessels' destroyed destroy d probably d de destroyed or damaged In the most massive of ot the latest lat Jat- lat lat- est ship plane-ship attacks G General MacArthurs MacArthur's bombers dropped tons of explosives Wednesday on the Boram airdrome and supply area of miles northwest northwest northwest north north- west of to weaken further further fur fur- ther the enemy's crumbling rumbling defenses defenses defenses de de- de- de for northern New Guinea Another 60 tons tons' crashed d dOwn wn on major Japanese shipping shipping ship ship- ping center imperiled Joy y allied me J oc occupation of the Huon 1 peninsula and juncture of Australian and Ameri American aJi troops troops' below 55 5 55 miles southeast of of the torn bomb-torn port American fl fliers ers previously reported the enemy apparently had abandoned the town of ot Intensifying the time t table bl sweeps over ver the largest force of raiders to come out ut from Solomons bases lashed at t Vuna- Vuna kanau and Tobera airdromes with 98 tons of bombs and shot down 20 to 27 of 50 enemy fighters Two Tw of or the or more allied bombers Continued ed on Pare Pace Two Column Seven I Allies Bomb Shell Jap Positions Over Wide Area Continued from torn Pa Page One and fighters failed to return from the New Britain mission Navy Coronado bombers pounced on art little Wake Vake island Thursday for the second successive day but buthe the he results of ot the raid were not announced Not a plane was lost lostin lostin in n the foray of the war against the former American possession possession pos pan session in the central Pacific The Seventh army air force on the he same day sent Liberator heaves heavies jes ies es Mitchell mediums Dauntless dive-bombers dive and fighters fight fight- em ers to unload more than tons of ot bombs and strafe unnamed atolls atos in the Marshalls MarshaUs The navys navy's announcement o of warship participation In the series serie of ot attacks said only that the surface surface sur sur- face ace units bombarded an important important tant ant held enemy-held atoll in the Marshalls Mar Mar- snails group without drawing re return return re- re turn urn fire At Pearl Harbor it was disclosed disclosed dis dis- dis- dis closed that the year old U. U S S. S battleship Oklahoma which Jan Jap i anese bombs bo capsized on December Decem- Decem ben ber er 7 1941 is afloat again agai but buthe the he navy did not say whether the ton sea veteran is back in inactive inactive active duty There was more bad cad news for tor forthe forthe the Nipponese In the Reuters dispatch dispatch dis din patch from Canberra capital of Australia declaring it had been stated authoritatively there that British troops will join Australian and American forces in the southwest southwest southwest south south- west Pacific before the end of the European war In Burma alli allied d troops stood firm in hard fighting southwest of occupied British Bazaar on the front The British made progress progress in the area while Chinese advanced slightly cast ast of Tare in the valley valley val val- val val- ley Icy campaign to clear a new road to China |
