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...overwhelming naval forces, bypassing the Japs' outer chains of islands and striking straight at Japan itself; 2) by air from China's waiting bases-still waiting because they cannot now be supplied; 3) island-by-island up the long ladder from the Solomons and New Guinea...
When the medals were handed out last week the U.S. for the first time learned who had been doing the fighting in New Guinea...
Last week was the most successful week of the war in the Southwest Pacific. With the Japs all but cleaned out of the Papuan sector of New Guinea, with the crushing of a Japanese attempt to land new reinforcements, General Douglas MacArthur left the screened veranda of his New Guinea cottage, where he had been since November, and returned to his headquarters in Australia...
...MacARTHUR's HEADQUARTERS, Australia--Allied troops closed from three sides today on Sanananda Point, last Japanese foothold in the Papuan area of New Guinea, as remnants of an enemy convey which was battered for three days at Lae were reported fleeing north-eastward...
Before he turned up in New Guinea a few months ago Francis P. O'Connell had: 1) been discharged from the Canadian Army with a leg full of Nazi bomb splinters; 2) enlisted in the U.S. Air Forces...