The Japs Were Losing

The Japs took a licking last week. They took it over and off northern Australia: at Kupang in Timor; at Salamaua and Lae in New Guinea, where U.S. and Aussie bombs scrambled scores of Jap planes on the ground; at Darwin, where four, possibly six, Jap bombers fell in one raid. More & more U.S. and Australian planes met fewer & fewer Japanese planes. Still more U.S. fighters, pilots and ground crews were arriving; more bombers were completing the long air-ferry leap across the Pacific.

They gave General Douglas MacArthur what no other United Nations commander had ever had in the Pacific: definite and sustained control of the air. With it, his Allied airmen were winning the Battle of Northern Australia. Without it the Japs can never hope to win Australia, or keep what they have already won in the Pacific.

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