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When the first land-based planes appeared from New Guinea, U.S. troops dived for foxholes, thinking they were Japs, then, seeing the U.S. markings, tossed their helmets and bellowed...
...pipeline still ran far to the south, as far removed as possible from the Japs' reach. Supplies were piped to Nouméa in New Caledonia, base of the desperate drive to recover the Solomons. Extensions ran to Australia, base of the equally desperate drive to recover New Guinea...
...forces in the bitter fighting around Buna and Gona. In this technique Douglas MacArthur recognized one of the oldest principles of war-isolation of the battlefield-achieved with war's newest weapon. It was final proof that if he could control the sea north of New Guinea with air power and the help of the U.S. navy, he need not plow the 1,500 miles through New Guinea's jungle to the tip and the jump-off for the Philippines...
...theater overlapped into MacArthur's domain, there came the inevitable discovery: MacArthur and the Navy (as wags liked to put it) were really allies. "Bull" Halsey met MacArthur; they found there was no reason for friction - at least, not any more. Chester Nimitz flew down to New Guinea; he and MacArthur conferred. While the Navy struck across the Pacific, through the Gilberts and Marshalls, past Truk and into the Marianas and western Carolines, MacArthur's men got stout naval support...
...also got heavy increases in his fighting manpower. By the time he was ready to invade the Philippines, he had already written military history: he had saved Australia, recovered New Guinea; his coastal campaign, fought by a series of leapfrog attacks with gathering momentum and a rare economy of men, had become one of the most successful of the TIME, OCTOBER 30, 1944 The Douglas MacArthur who landed at Leyte last week had written an extraordinary chapter n personal experience as well as in public service. Past 60, with a crack record behind him, he had had to prove himself...