[fso301]

Noted the p6 article where Japanese General Soto complains that the Americans aren’t fighting fairly. I can’t remember who it was but another Japanese general spoke out in late 1942 about Americans using “gangster tactics” in the New Guinea and Solomon Sea area by virtue of skip bombing, para-fragging and employing field designed strafing variants of the A-20 and B-25.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Here are two B-25's making a low-level run on one of the Japanese transports. Of the eight transports and eight destroyers, all eight transports and four of the destroyers were sunk and twenty escorting aircraft were shot down, at a cost of one B-17 and three P-38's shot down and one B-25 and one Australian Beaufighter being lost to accidents. Japanese losses were estimated at around 2,900, while the Allies lost thirteen killed.

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea is one of the most decisive victories in military history.