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...credit to the Fightin' Thirteenth, which has destroyed more than 1,300 Jap planes, sunk 500,000 tons of Jap shipping in its unbroken tour of duty from the New Hebrides, through Guadalcanal and the central Solomons, New Guinea and the Moluccas, to the Philippines and Borneo...
Cleanup in the Rear. No one could take more satisfaction from this success than General Morshead himself. He had come to the Borneo command from the torturous, far from finished battle of New Guinea, one of the rear-area wars where the Aussies are still busy at the grim cleanup...
...Wewak sector of New Guinea, 6th Division troops last week finally managed to breast the Prince Alexander Ranges, take a village and an important track (i.e., trail) junction. But progress promised to be slower now: behind imposing fortifications, the opposition of perhaps 70,000 remaining New Guinea Japs stiffened sharply...
White Magic. In New Guinea, a Quartermaster Corps corporal got no cooperation from natives until his false teeth accidentally popped out. Thenceforth, reported the Army, he "was looked upon with respect and awe, and his orders were obeyed with alacrity...
...Kenney's command under MacArthur will include three air forces: the Fifth, commanded by stocky, sallow Lieut. General Ennis C. Whitehead, which fought its way up through Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines; the Thirteenth, now commanded by a smart, 38-year-old pilot, Major General Paul B. Wurtsmith, which started in the Solomons, shifted to New Guinea, recently covered the Australian landings on Borneo; and the Seventh, veteran Central Pacific outfit which started in Hawaii and worked its way westward to Okinawa. The Seventh's commander: Brigadier General Thomas D. White...