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...Guinea jungles one day last week, Japanese troops, dug in for the defense of Lae, lifted their eyes to the skies and saw Kyoku Okuda's warning suddenly materialize. Rumbling overhead were Allied bombers, fighters and transports-the largest air armada ever assembled in the Southwest Pacific. From the transports hundreds of parachutes were dropping like blossoms into Markham Valley...
...Guinea Allied bombers ranged beyond Salamaua, to which Jap soldiers still clung, to hit at the Jap supply route which winds through the jungles and along the shore. They smacked faraway Wewak, where the route begins, sank three 7,000-ton freighters in the harbor there, set a fourth transport and a destroyer ablaze. They smashed Jap headquarters at Lae with 84 tons of bombs...
...slow retreat, the Japs withdrew their air reinforcements from the airfields at Wewak to the safer refuge of Hollandia, 600 miles from the New Guinea front. At week's end, under air cover and a heavy naval bombardment, seaborne Australian troops made an end run around both Salamaua and Lae, staged a large-scale amphibious landing above Lae to cut off both Jap bases from their overland supply...
...fierce fighting over the Southwest Pacific came a new legend for the children of airmen. Last week in New Guinea pilots were still talking about the final exploit of Major Ralph Cheli-("pronounced Kelly," said a friend of his, "as in Colin Kelly...
Ralph Cheli, 23, fair-haired, blue-eyed, had 40 missions and 135 combat hours behind him in New Guinea; he had the D.F.C. and the Air Medal. He also had a young son, called "Butch" by fellow flyers looking over the baby pictures. Because of his executive duties he need not have flown missions; in fact, he rarely went out on routine jobs. "But when the mission was going to be tough," said the pilots, "we could be sure Cheli would be out there with us." On Aug. 18 Cheli went out with them to bomb and strafe the Dagua...