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...these editors in the home office are themselves fresh from the fronts #151; and many of the week-to-week cables from our correspondents now in the Pacific are being written into TIME by Bob Sherrod, perhaps the most shot-at correspondent of the whole Pacific war -on New Guinea and Attu, Tarawa and Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa...
...Sixth Army's General Walter Krueger, victor of New Guinea and Luzon, commented caustically: "In going to 85 points they took out my first team. If they go to 80 they will take out my second team. I can't land in Japan with a third team...
...Manchuria and China surrender came rapidly: even on remote Bougainville (in the Solomons) and Wewak (New Guinea), there was less delay in dealings between field commanders than between the two supreme headquarters...
November: MacArthur struck at Buna on the north coast of New Guinea, began his march toward the Philippines...
...through the great islands of Indonesia and Melanesia were 300,000 enemy troops, some already heavily engaged by the Australians, some just trying to live. It was a question how clearly the voice of surrender would be heard on the jungled slopes of the Prince Alexander Range in New Guinea, or on the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul...