The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28

WUI9 NlaA0NNAAA NNAN AAeNAAAtN stances os perfect United Statas arrny air corps teamwork, which has cutsnaartod the Japanese again and again in the Australian thoater. Kiser, intent only on attack, was downing his bomberg when Morse saw Q Zero racing in on Kiserb tall, hoping for an easy sneak victory on the Pearl tfarbor pattern.
 Morse dartOd ct the Japanese craft, opened his guns at close range, and sent it plunging to death. m their own raids, the Allied planes struck hard at two Japanese bases which have been little in the news for weeks while the Aner- leans were concentrating on the two great bases, Rabul and Koe- pang, on New Britain 1sland.
 Kavleng is on the northwest tp of New Ireland Island In tho Bis- marcks, iTb miles northwest Of Ra- baul. It is Q relay base from the Japane6e-Enandated Caroline fsl- Rxds.
 FnisI, Q tiny island off the south end of Bougainvllie, in tho &olo- mons, is one of the enemy's new te- Joy points for long range seaplanOs which are trying vainly to penetrate Q U. g. Army Air Corps fighter screen to reconnolter and photo- graph the American defenses New Caledonia, 1t lies about i,S00 miles north of NouInea, chief town Of New Caledonia.
 Two More Heroes
 Gen, MacArthur's headquarters, Australia, April 2e-(UP)-- Two heroes were added to AEnerica's fast growing roll of honor yesterday when Japanese planes made their 18th raid on Darwin, end at least seven and perhaps q dozen or more Of them were plunged to deStruc" ton.
 Allied fighter pilots were loung- lng ln their squadron headquarterS when the alarm sounded.
 They jumped for their helmets, goggles, parachuteA and life jackets and sprlnted to the cir field where ground crews were warming up their planes.
 The planes swarmed to the air In rat-tail fashion, single filo bat. tie formation, and disappeared Into the clouds.
 rho longest and most spectacular dog fight ever seen over Darwin followed, and the shattered enemy formation flew raggedly away, high balling for life.
 The official cofnmunique claimed seven Japanese planes, but the pilots believe that because of the length of the fight several Japanese fight. CTS, with their fuel gone, must nave plunged Into the sec on their way back to base.
 It was nearly an hour after tho fighters disappeared into the clouds, that the first came back, to refuel, resammunition and go in again.
 Victory Roll
 The pilot was Lieutenant George E. Riser, 23, Somerset, Ky. He had already downed two enemy borab- CTS And he jubiiantiy roared m over the airdrone ct 300 feet, giving the victory roll.
 T climbed into the sun above the bombers," :" he said. "f made c pass ct the first formation and got two of them. l blew the efl- zine out of the first and saw the second burst Into flames and reel off. A zero fighter jumped me. gave him c burst but I'm not sure whether he crashed
 A second zero jumped me 90 got out and Morse took care of him"
 That is, Lieutenant Donald M, Morse, a, Augusta, Me. Morse got one zero Sunday. He he'd bagged one in the Philippines and three in Java.
 everybody was hollcring over the radlophone, "watch for 0erosl Morse said of yesterdays victory. Instead I went for the bon1pers until I saw q zero on KiSer'S tail. Then went after him.
 "He twisted his plane all oyer the place trying to dodge my bullets, and then = blooeyl The zero prAe- tlcaliy came to pieces, It burst ln the midst of c mass of flames"
 Reds Throw Back NaSls
 KulbyShev Russia April 2e. =. (UP) = The Red Army reported today that fresh German reserves are being thrown against Russian positions "at numerous points" along the front in futile and costly ct. tempts to regain positions lost In the winter campaign.
 The Cornfnunist Youth League ors gan, Komsomolskaya PraVdA, BtlfI1- marking the winter war, said that Soviet forces drove the Germans from iiO0O inhabited points in- cludinR GO cities. It previously had been estimated that the Russians killed 100000 Germans in the 20 weeks beginning December c.
 Todays high command commit nlque said that large forces of Nazi reserves had been thrown ins to action during the past 40 hours ia efforts to drive wedges into the Soviet positions, supported by squadronS on planes and many tanks.
 Every attack was repulsed, the cofnmunlque said, with heavy Qer- man losses. At ono point 1000 Germans were annihilated and large amounts of booty taken and, on tho Kaiinin front, 20 German firing positions were said to have been destroyed and 2V0 Germans killed.
 With the exception Of the for north, where the Red Army poufld- cd the Films unceasingly, most Of the front seemed in the grip of mud and floods, which made larges scale action almost impossible. In the far north, where the snow was Just beginning to melt, fighting was described as fierce.