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...Guinea. General MacArthur's men (Sixth Army veterans of Buna) had landed at Saidor on the northern New Guinea coast, found scant opposition, lost three men dead, buried eleven Japs, seized the settlement's grass huts, coconut groves, rubber plantations (the first recovered from the Japs), an unused air strip. Then they fanned out, trapping Jap patrols who were skirmishing with Australians some 60 miles down the coast. With an Australian column poised inland in the Ramu Valley, they set up a two-pronged threat to Madang, the next important Jap base northwest of Finsch-haven...
...service and supply the A.A.F., Air Serviee Command operates 300 warehouses containing half a million different items, ships out nine tons of aviation supplies (not including food) a month per pilot overseas. A.S.C.'s enterprises encircle the globe, are frequently masterpieces of improvisation. In New Guinea the "Thick & Thin Lumber Co.," created from a wrecked plane, two wrecked trucks, a worn-out tractor and machinery from an abandoned copper mine, turned out finished lumber by board-foot thousands...
...journey-to New Guinea and the Solomons-came in very handy when the U.S. forces invaded those lands. Vandercook recalls asking his wife during their Solomons sojourn in 1933-34: "Why don't we just live here? It's the most beautiful place in the world, and it's so obvious nothing can ever happen here." News of the U.S.-British deal for Caribbean bases made Vandercook a commentator. When the story broke, he was paying a social call on an NBC vice president. This official asked Vandercook if he knew anything about the West Indies. They...
Waring & Teller say they could go on to tell about ducks, geese, guinea fowl, calves and kids and steers, maple sugar, vinegar and wine and the value of conserving game on the farm, but they trust that in a few paragraphs their readers will get the idea about diversification. As for orchards, they doubt the value of putting much time and money into them. They have never been able to eat enough peaches or apples to recover the cost of spraying for home...
...stronghold. The Admiralties lie on Rabaul's western flank. Kavieng, at the top of New Ireland Island, lies 150 miles to Rabaul's north, is a way station from Truk. Allied bases on the Admiralties and New Ireland, combined with bases already established in the Solomons, New Guinea and New Britain, will mean the encirclement of Rabaul. Last week the air-and-sea pincers were pressed from the Solomons, where a 17-months' campaign entered its final, victorious phase. U.S. Liberator bombers, Hellcat and Corsair escorts mauled one of Rabaul's five airfields, shot down...