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...have placed me in a ticklish position and I call upon you to extricate this bewildered G.I. In reading your article (TIME, Aug. 21 ) relating to the New Guinea campaign, I was very impressed by the figures given of losses for combined Australian and U.S. forces. The amounts stated are 662 dead, 63 missing. Later, in a bull session with the boys, I trot out these said totals expecting complete surprise and amazement. The surprise was effected all right, to the extent that they doubted the figures enough to wager $25 that you are wrong. I took...
Said General MacArthur's tall, lean, sandy-mustached chief engineer, Brigadier General Leif John ("Jack") Sverdrup: "It's marvelous country to raise rice, but damn poor country to raise airfields." Sverdrup had once built an airfield on New Guinea in six days, five hours, 10 minutes. That was impossible on Leyte. But his ingenious engineers cut corners where they could. One airstrip was complete except for 120 feet, under water. They got a plane to race its props and blow off the water, dried the ground with a flamethrower, then hastily put down a hard surface...
...Hell of Buna. In May 1942, the 32nd was dumped into Australia. Douglas MacArthur, beginning his New Guinea campaign, picked it for his onslaught on Buna...
...MacArthur had to have men if he was going to carry on his New Guinea campaign. The malaria-ridden men of the 32nd were isolated to be cured. The rest of the Division licked its wounds and waited-until lean, tough Major General William H. Gill, now their commander, stood them up and proclaimed that he was going to put the outfit together again. A year later the 32nd was back...
South of the Philippines, U.S. troops picked up another small parcel of Pacific real estate, this time the tiny Mapia Islands off Dutch New Guinea. Presumably they were taken as flank protection for the U.S. air base on Biak. Meanwhile U.S. Liberator bombers flew 800 miles to bomb the important Japanese naval base at Brunei Bay on the far side of Borneo, scoring five hits on a battleship, four on a cruiser. Both ships, presumably cripples or survivors of last month's naval battle, were left blazing...