ISLAND-HOPPING
AIR POWER POSSIBILITIES
(Rec. 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 26. The "Christian Science Monitor" says in a leader: "On its face painfully slow, the Australian and American campaign in New Guinea -has not supported General Mac Arthur's declaration that the attack against Japan can be freed from slow island to island process. However, the new use of air power suggests that in the island-hopping business some islands could be skipped.' One could imagine Allied attacks "not against Munda but against Java and the Philippines. This presupposes holding advanced airfields, but General MacArthur's ingenuity may do wonders. New airfields may be laid out in territories only loosely held by the Japs or in old ones captured by parachute. We hope it will be possible to employ j sufficient air and sea forces in the | South Pacific in order to realise the possibilities which imaginative use of air power suggests."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 3
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