Word: finschhaven
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...would like to second the nomination of Douglas MacArthur for Man of the Year. . . . He has done a magnificent job in the Southwest Pacific, and the careful planning and precise execution of the Salamaua-Lae-Finschhaven campaign give a hint of what he could do if he had larger forces at his disposal...
...Guinea, jungle-wise Australians mopped up the Huon Peninsula. Along rugged, malaria-ridden trails, with the help of Matilda tanks, they pushed converging columns toward Jap outposts. Their immediate objective: to clear the enemy from the hinterland of Finschhaven, the port captured almost two months ago by a bold amphibious stroke (TIME, Oct. 4). From Finschhaven some 70 miles of blue water lead to Jap-held New Britain: across that island's curving 300 miles lies Rabaul...
...Aussies, moving slowly over a peninsula as big as Connecticut, had support from Allied air and sea arms. The New Britain shore nearest New Guinea took a sustained bombing. Madang, the feeder base for the Jap Huon line and 200 miles up the coast from Finschhaven, took a night shelling from U.S. warships. Gasmata, a New Britain stronghold, got a similar dose of gunfire. In both actions, U.S. vessels penetrated waters that had been Jap preserves since early 1942, had seldom smelled the powder of the U.S. Navy...
...bases on Buka Island. Reinforced U.S. troops fought grimly in the jungles of Bougainville, wrenching advances of several hundred yards in the Empress Augusta Bay area while engineers rushed construction of airstrips. Australian troops, using Matilda tanks smuggled in secretly at night, increased pressure against the Japanese in the Finschhaven sector of New Guinea...
...territory, Japan made all its gains south and west of Formosa and the Carolines in less than a year. The Allies, on the other hand, have spent a year sending that little sprout up from Moumea to Guadalcanal and Munda and those tiny arterioles out from Port Moresby to Finschhaven in the north and to the Woodlark Islands off Milne Bay in the east. The difference is that no one was dug in to delay the Japs, whereas the Japs, who are diggers extraordinary, have consolidated themselves. Their arteries are hardened...