The Slow Pace

Pacific. The pincers against the Jap strong point at Rabaul slowly tightened. Douglas MacArthur seized a New Britain beachhead 270 miles to the southwest, secured it. Army bombers hammered in daily schedule at the Marshalls, writing a prelude to invasion. The drive on Tokyo went still at the infantryman's pace.

Russia. Between the Pripet Marshes and Leningrad, the Red Army smashed into the enemy in a new offensive, moved 19 miles on a 50-mile front in five days. At Kherson, 640 miles to the south, it drove the enemy from his bridgehead on the Dnieper's south bank. Question for Germans: Where would the big blow fall?

The Balkans. Jimmie Doolittle's Fifteenth Air Force smashed at Peiraeus and Athens airdromes with impressive power (300 planes).

Italy. Step by step, mile by mile.

Germany. Berlin, still cleaning up, was plastered again by the R.A.F. with 1.500 tons of bombs, bled and burned anew.

India. Mountbatten unified his air forces. Asia waited.

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