Show 4 4 45 rr I jj i I a i I i g y c. c I. I I F. F iv s 1 J A 4 I L v e P i 1 Lq G d i After the Battle They're rh y re eyed dull d with fatigue these U. U S. S marines and dirty and grimy from the smoke of of- battle and the coral sand in which they crawled on their bellies bellies bellies bel bel- lies and buried their faces But they are winners winners and and typical of the conquerors who wiped the Japs off the face of atoll They are pictured after the battle hungrily hungrily hun hun- downing hot coffee aboard a coast manned guard-manned transport t Allied Fliers Bag 65 Jap Planes In Ton ion Attack on By Associated Press PressA A daring sweep of south Pacific seas failed to stir sUr up a single Jap Japanese Japanese Jap- Jap ap- ap anese ship or combatant plane an American destroyer cruiser-destroyer task force fOIce reported Wednesday but al al al' allied allied lied fliers filers found good hu hunting at New Guinea where they bagged possibly 65 enemy planes during a three-day three ton 00 assault The task force ventured unchallenged unchallenged unchallenged the farthest west in Japans Japan's south Pacific island empire of any Ameri American an naval unit in the war Failure to find a single lingle ship or to draw the attack of a I single Japanese plane caused Rear Admiral Aaron S. S Merrill task force commander to comment It demonstrates our naval as aswell aswell well as air superiority over a i l large rge section of the south Pacific It I also looks like the Japs have abandoned abandoned aban aban- abandoned their forces in the south Pacific and left them to subsist on on victory gardens Rain Down n Bombs From Ge General eral Do Douglas gl s MacArthurs MacArthur's MacArthur's MacArthurs MacArthurs MacArthur's MacAr- MacAr thurs thur's headquarters came the tabulation tabulation tabulation tab tab- of 65 enemy planes shot out of action during the thre three three- day smash at Vew k Japans Japan's main air and supply base in north north- em ern rn New Guinea The last Jast reported of three strikes s occurred Monday when tons of explosives rain rained d down on W wak's four airdromes and supply areas Two American planes fail failed d to return Suicidal lunges lunges' against Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans on Boug Bougainville b by trapped Japanese con continued but latest latest- re reports reports reports' reports reports' re- re ports ports' indicated the high point Inthe Inthe in inthe the assault came Saturday and since then all ill Japanese have b been n repulsed and all lines held firmly Marines fighting on n New Britain's Britain's Brit Brit- ains ain's penInsula s sent t a small detachment to land on the coast to the west and pinch oil oft Japanese stragglers horn from the Tala Tala- sea battlefront And Sixth army troops rolled up their big guns to blast Manus island largest in the Admiralty group after completing their conquest of two small islands lying 1000 yards offshore New Britain airline miles from the battlefront took a 8 ton aerial pounding Sunday and Catalina flying boat pilots destroyed a three-ship three convoy convoy convoy con con- voy off the New Guinea coast Other airmen pounded Japans Japan's base in the eastern Caroline Caroline Carp Carp- Caro- Caro line islands Sunday and hit six enemy bases in the Marshall islands cast east of Fliers from the air force in China pounded an airdrome and and seaplane base on Japanese-held Japanese Hainan island off the south China Chiha coast Monday and shot down five of ot 12 intercepting fighters up Mopping-up operations by allied forces in northern Burma accounted account account- ed Cd for enemy dead in fierce I fighting near headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters Black Dragon pass gateway in inso so Eo southwestern rn Sha st si province China has has' been recaptured by Chinese Chiri Chi Chi- ri nese se f forces reported The Japanese had held the pass fore for six years |