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...Still other bombers of the Fifth struck at the big Japanese air base at Hollandia in central New Guinea, 520 miles west...
From the islands of Palau the Japanese had launched their first air attacks on the Philippines. From Palau they had staged their advance into New Guinea. It was Palau that they called the "spigot" of their oil supply-i.e., The Netherlands East Indies. And Palau was one of Japan's finest naval bases...
...extended its reach. Unless the Japanese were willing to meet the thrusts of the U.S. Navy at or near Palau, they would have to withdraw their supply route still farther west, to the Philippines, leaving all their mid-Pacific garrisons as well as their garrisons in New Guinea, New Britain and New Ireland at the end of a very long and tortuous line...
...differences between the ratios in different theaters show variations in the combat efficiency of the enemy as well as of U.S. air forces. Smart as the operations of General Chennault in China have been, and of General Kenney in New Guinea, their ratios might not have been so favorable had they been fighting the still tougher Luftwaffe in Western Europe...
...looked last week as though the day was approaching when there would have to be one overall commander in the Pacific. Just as the Solomons and New Guinea operations had converged on Kavieng and Rabaul, so now the Central Pacific and the southern operations began to converge on the Carolines...