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Between Mountbatten and Nimitz, on what has been the No.1 front since the Pacific war began, General Douglas MacArthur would finish pinching off Rabaul, advance along New Guinea to a position which could threaten the East Indies...
General Douglas MacArthur demonstrated in New Guinea that he is a great offensive commander. In less than three weeks he gobbled up most of the Huon Peninsula. In twelve days he enveloped and captured Lae. Six days later he swept around Finschhaven, 70 miles beyond Lae on the Huon Gulf. His airborne Australians attacked inland. His seaborne Australians landed on the coast above Finschhaven, with mortar fire and bayonet established a bridgehead and seized Finschhaven airport. At week's end the fall of Finschhaven itself was imminent, and the Japs were reduced to a few last toe holds...
With the capture of Finschhaven, MacArthurs's forces will be separated by only 70 miles of water from horn-shaped New Britain, which points at New Guinea. Liberators in one raid last week pounded the horn's point with 94 tons of bombs-a heavy raid for that theater. Kenney's fighters flew 250 miles from their base to strafe enemy shipping and installations in , the horn's curve. At the horn's far end stands Rabaul, the enemy's key position in the area and the logical climax of the General...
...guerre in World War I, stuck to his Wall Street bond business, worried about Government extravagance, watched Daughter Theodora kick up her heels as a professional dancer and son Archie Jr. kick up his as an American Youth Congress leader. Archie Sr. finally enlisted. He landed in New Guinea with the 41st Division. Last week he was heard from...
...Constantly under fire, Bottcher provided a diversion that resulted in Allied victory. "By a conservative count . . . Bottcher and his twelve men . . . killed more than 120 Japs." The Papuan, Katue, conducted a one-man guerrilla war against the Japanese. In the jungles he killed innumerable Japanese and scared many New Guinea natives who had gone over to the Japanese back to the Allied side. After 73 days of individual exploits, Katue turned up with a Jap prisoner. Asked what he intended to do next, the Papuan replied: "Go out again quicktime. . . bring back stripes of Japanese general...