On all the far flung battlefronts of this war

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But first, here's John Daly. On all the far-flung battle fronts of this war, I have to take initiative from the Axis powers. Land forces of the United Nations no longer die of instinctively for the foxholes when planes roar overhead, for most of them are Allied planes.

This single factor, perhaps more than any other, has put the United Nations on the offensive. In North Africa, in both Libya and Tunisia, the story of the fighting is principally the story of air fighting, of Allied planes methodically hammering at Axis supply ports and Axis the Axis supply line. American bombers from Tunisia have made their first attack on the

Axis-held area of Tripoli in Libya today. They bombed an airfield ten miles west of the enemy base and scored direct hits. That pays back the British 8th Army in Libya. For some of the attacks it has been making on Axis bases in Tunisia. It also reveals again the cooperation between the Allied forces in the East and West. Both of course are working with a common objective

to drive the access from all North Africa and first to drive them from the air. Allied air power in the last few days also has won and is still winning important decisions in the Pacific.

And for a report direct from that area, Admiral Radio takes you now to CBS Honolulu, Webley Edwards reporting. This is Honolulu. The mopping up on the top floor peninsula of New Guinea has forced the jet back some 150 miles to his bases at Lai in Salamara.