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Free Sample Chapters 171
MARSHALL ISLANDS: Eleven VII Bomber Command B-24s based
at Canton Island Airdrome attack Mille Atoll; and Task Group 50.1 carrier
aircraft attack Mille Atoll.
NEW GUINEA: Twenty-two V Bomber Command B-25s and A-20s
attack IJA ground troops around Sattelberg.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: Five USN PB4Ys, eight AirSols P-38s, and
eight AirSols F4Us attack Buka Airdrome; and XIII Fighter Command
P-38s attack barges and shore targets at Chabai.
November 23, 1943
CHINA: Thirteen 11th Medium Bombardment Squadron B-25s escorted
by 24 Fourteenth Air Force P-40s and seven A-36s, attack rail yards and
warehouses and Yoyang; and eight P-40s attack IJA cavalry and river
traffic near Hanshow.
EAST INDIES: V Bomber Command B-24s attack a convoy near
Halmahera Island.
GILBERT ISLANDS: VF-16 F6F pilots down 17 A6Ms near Makin
Atoll at appromimately 1005 hours.
Lt(jg) Eugene R. Hanks, a VF-16 F6F pilot, becomes the first
F6F ace in a day when he downs five A6Ms (and probably downs a
sixth) near Tarawa Atoll at 1006 hours.
U.S. Army troops overcome resistance on Butaritari Island in
Makin Atoll, and U.S. Marines secure Betio Island in Tarawa Atoll after
a particularly bloody fight that points up the low state-of-the-art
effectiveness of air and naval bombardment. Moves are made to
completely secure both atolls and some outlying island groups still
occupied by Japanese forces.
MARSHALL ISLANDS: Six VII Bomber Command B-24s based at
Nukufetau Airdrome attack Jaluit Atoll; and Task Group 50.1 carrier
aircraft attack Mille Atoll.
NEW GUINEA: V Bomber Command B-25s and A-20s attack occupied
villages around Finschhafen.
P-40 pilots with the 35th Fighter Group’s 40th Fighter Squadron
down an A6M and a Ki-43 near Saidor at 0955 hours.