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...came the Fifth's blow at Rabaul. At least for the moment, Jap air power in the Southwest Pacific seemed to have been destroyed. But the Jap was still able and willing to send planes into combat. Over the weekend he lost 104 aircraft in the Solomons-New Guinea area...
...Scheme. It was a vital goal of the counteroffensive which MacArthur began last June 30. Inch-by-inch land fighting had brought MacArthur's men laboriously to Lae, to Finschhaven in New Guinea, to Munda and Vella Lavella in the Solomons. Americans who toiled in the rain and heat to build airfields, Australians who fought to clear the enemy from Huon Gulf, made the aerial climax possible...
...mountains to envelop the enemy from Finschhaven to Madang 200 miles beyond. Jap troops on the whole Huon Peninsula were pocketed. Despite talk of new Jap planes (see p. 20), MacArthur held complete and vitally effective command of the air. It was a climax to MacArthur's New Guinea campaign, which according to Brigadier General Charles Willoughby, MacArthur's intelligence chief, had been fought with "pinchpenny precise planning." The margin of success was always so small that MacArthur could never "afford to be wrong...
Next Stage? Poised within striking distance of important Jap bases at three points, Allied forces made preparations this week for the next stage. In the Gilberts it would come when Admiral Chester Nimitz was sure that the Navy had the power for a decisive blow. In New Guinea MacArthur was pointing for Madang...
That was all the coddling the bacillus rot, but that was enough. When 20 years were up last April, the bacteria in 33 of the tubes were very much alive. To find out whether the live germs were still killers, they were injected into 33 guinea pigs. Result: 22 guinea pigs got bubonic plague; eleven...