MARSHALL ISLANDS
Taking Severe Punishment
(Rec. 10.25 p.m.) NEW YORK. Jan. 6. “Tire Seventh Air Force is inflicting severe punishment on the Japanese Marshalls, Our losses have been kept well below the no profit level,” said Brigadier-General Flood to the representative of the “New York Times” at the Central Pacific base. Brigadier-General Flood predicted that the United States would maintain her air superiority there in spite of the advantageous strategic position of the Japanese, who can send reinforcements almost at will by staging fighting planes to forward positions across their many island bases. “We have the Japanese on the run here.” lie added, “and Lieutenant-General A. Kenny, cpmmander of the Allied Air Forces in the South Pacific, has them on the run there.” Brigadier-General Flood explained that the Seventh Air Force was using pin-point navigation to find and raid infinitesimal islands which were no larger than some individual targets in Berlin.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22785, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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