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SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA-- Flying Fortresses gave the Japanese base of Rabaul one of its heaviest beatings of the war during the night. But the thing that tickled the squadron leader the most was that the Japs were being robbed of sleep...
...bombers continued to attack the Japs at Salamaua and Lae in northern New Guinea and at Rabaul in New Britain. By land, air & sea, troops would have to follow the bombers before the Pacific Allies finished what they had begun in Papua and the Solomons...
Last week from the Sanananda front in New Guinea came a dramatic eyewitness dispatch telling of the fighting that broke the last Jap resistance in Papua. Over it was Vice President Bartholomew's byline...
...brief, there is hardly a front where the United Nations are fighting -from the water-logged trenches along the Yangtze to the frozen steppes above Rostov, from pea-soup air above the North Sea to the deserts of Africa and the steaming jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal-but what at least one of TIME'S writers in New York can tell you first hand just what it feels like to be there with our fighting men, and fill in the cables from TIME'S regular correspondents from their own personal knowledge of the battlefronts of this...
...shortest haul to any of the Allied battlefronts is 1,200 miles, the longest 14,000 miles. Every new front opened-in New Guinea, the Solomons, North Africa-is a strategic gain for the Allies, but it also imposes an additional drain on available shipping. The invasion of North Africa, and supply for the Allies after they were established in that theater, have required some 1,000 merchant voyages to date (the number of ships, each making several trips, may be considerably less...