THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
AMERICAN AIR ATTACKS ENEMY HEAVILY PUNISHED (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 6? “The Seventh Air Force is inflicting severe punishment on the Japanese in the Marshalls, but our losses have been kept well below the ‘no profit’ level,” said Brigadier General Flood to a New York Times representative at a Central Pacific base. He predicted that the United States would maintain air superiority there in spite of the advantageous strategic position of the Japanese, who can send reinforcements almost at will by staging fighter planes to 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 south-west Pacific.” • He explained that the Seventh Air Force was using pin-point navigation to find and raid infinitesimal islands which are no larger than some of the Individual targets in Berlin.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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