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...readers who had thought of the New Guinea campaign as an exclusively American show were pulled up sharply last week by announcement of the campaign's casualty totals. The U.S. suffered 4,319 casualties (2,175 killed, 2,144 wounded); Australia 6,212 (2,379 killed, 3,833 wounded). The principal U.S. contribution was in the air, and the American casualties included perhaps 1,000 airmen. On the ground, the Australian loss was almost twice as great as that of the two U.S. divisions in the campaign...
...fought several months in China against the Communist Chu Teh, another had fought through Burma, another through Malaya. For some time a pool of perhaps 250-300 aircraft had been gradually building up at Rabaul, a reserve pool and a Zero assembly plant at Kavieng. Wewak on New Guinea had been developed into an advance base, now that the Lae-Salamaua area of eastern New Guinea was so clearly dominated by Allied power...
Last week these preparations bore fruit. Four times within a week the Japanese undertook a raid with nearly 100 planes: against shipping in the Solomons (TIME, April 19), in Oro Bay and Milne Bay on New Guinea, and against the docks and ground installations at Port Moresby. Allied forces claimed they had shot down 121 planes in these four raids, but the raiders too did some damage. Allied planes also sank two ships out of a convoy of nine which probably succeeded in putting supplies ashore at Wewak...
...Matter of Experience. U.S. ground troops had nothing behind them but training camps and the remote and vicarious experiences of Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, New Guinea. The British troops had been tempered by Norway, France, Dunkirk, Greece, Crete, Burma, many blunders and defeats, a great deal of desert and two years against the master, Rommel. The first U.S. phase in Tunisia was a time of learning, a waking up. Said an officer attached to Lieut. General George S. Patton's II Corps: "All this will be great practice for the next show...
...taken toll of the Times foreign staff. Crack Correspondent Byron Darnton was accidentally killed in New Guinea. Robert Post failed to return from a bomber trip over Wilhelmshaven. Fred Wilkins, long the Times's Manila correspondent, is a Jap prisoner. Other able, famed Timesmen, like Otto Tolischus (author of the recent Tokyo Record) and Hallett Abend (Ramparts of the Pacific), are now in the U.S. because the countries they covered are enemy-held...