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...Guinea jungles, Australian soldiers pushing the Jap back, mile by bloody, sweaty mile, grinned as they heard the planes coming over. They had air power now to help them. But they could remember when things were different...
...Mile Airdrome* near Port Moresby, New Guinea, is no pilot's paradise. It is a flight strip about one mile long, paved with steel mats laid on gravel. The mats are a fairly recent improvement; there was a time when the tricycle landing-geared 6-243 could not be used from X-Mile Field because the nose wheel would sink down in the loose dirt. At the lower end of the field is a graveyard of cracked-up and salvaged planes. When the bombers lift their wings over this they are quickly out over the open...
...Spot. Most of the Allied raids which trip-hammered the Japanese last week were flown from the Port Moresby area. Most of these were directed against the New Guinea base of Lae and its surrounding airfields, and against Rabaul, pivot point of Japanese power in the New Guinea-New Britain theater. For this there was a double reason...
...With their hold on New Guinea, consolidated last winter by MacArthur's victory at Buna-Gona (TIME, Jan. 4), the Allies had driven a wedge into the Japanese line facing northeastern Australia and gained a base for air operations against all supplies coming into this theater...
...Guinea foothold held possibilities of a further Allied thrust into the Jap's defensive wall at Rabaul...