BOMBING ATTACKS
ON MARSHALL ISLANDS NAVY SECRETARY CALLS THEM SOFTENING UP. WEAKNESS OF JAPANESE AIR ARM (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, January 4. The American Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Frank Knox) said today that United States airmen were continuing to soften up the Marshall Islands. A Washington message points out that this is the first time the Navy Secretary has used the phrase “soften up” in connection with aerial blows against Japanese bases in. the Marshalls. He added that the Americans had put the Japanese on the defensive throughout the South and South-West Pacific region. United States aircraft losses were very slight, and the Japanese air arm seemed particularly weak.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1944, Page 3
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