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...other flank of the South Pacific front-in New Guinea-U.S. and Australian forces humped towards oft-bombed Salamaua. The Jap's outer defenses along the jungly ridges protecting the Salamaua airdrome suddenly cracked. "All at once," said dispatches, the Japs evacuated their positions and retreated pell-mell to last-ditch defenses around the Salamaua airdrome...
Anxious Seat. From the Jap point of view the situation could never have looked more dangerous than it did last week. Three months ago the Jap, giving ground slowly in New Guinea, still held the initiative in the Solomons. He was in position to attack; the U.S. was on the defence. The capture of Munda reversed that...
...Worse luck for the Jap was his inability to scrape together enough air strength at any one place to stop the" Allied air power that kept hitting him in every spot. Last week, when Lieut. General George Kenney decided to force a showdown for air control over central New Guinea, the Jap took the worst licking he has taken yet in the air. He had massed a strong force along the 35-mile-long chain of airfields at Wewak. Over this nest U.S. planes roared. Said Kenney's deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will continue until...
...protecting them meanwhile, until it has enough accumulated to launch an attack. In the Southwest area General MacArthur is circumscribed by the same lack of shipping. Australia is 7,500 miles from San Francisco. It is another 1,000-2,000 from Australian unloading points to the New Guinea battlefront...
...leading magazines. Back in '41 he rode troop trains-in razor-creased wools and a Pershing cap! He later appeared in Guada, happy, smiling, clean as a boy scout poster. He arrived safely, and none the worse for wear, in North Africa. He showed up in New Guinea, a notoriously messy theater of war, and went so far as to sit near a very small puddle of water...