“ Have Them on the Run ” In Central Pacific
AMERICA CAN MAINTAIN AIR SUPERIORITY Received Friday, 10.25 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 6. The Seventh Air Force is inflicting severe punishment on the Japanese in the Marshalls and our losses are kept below the ‘‘ no profit * ’ level, said Brigadier-General Flood to the New York Times’ representative at the Central Pacific base. General Flood predicted that the United States would maintain air superiority there despite the advantageous strategic position of the Japanese who can send reinforcements almost at will by staging fighter planes to their forward positions across their many island bases. General Flood added: “We have the Japanese on the run here and General Kenny has them on the run in the Southwest Pacific.” General Flood explained that the Seventh Air Force was using pinpoint navigation to find and raid infinitesimal islands which were no longer than some of the individual targets in Berlin.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 6, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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