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This week, 25 days after the Battle for Buna began, Allied infantrymen swept out of the slimy, matted New Guinea jungles into the tiny village. Thereby they cut off the head of the 13-mile-long, snakelike Jap line which lay writhing on the beach...
Three months ago Buzz got his chance. Returned from New Guinea, he was assigned as an engineering expert to the Curtiss-Wright (P-40) plant, was sent around the U.S. several times to talk to the men who draw plans for U.S. planes. One of his stops was Wright Field, No. 1 U.S. airplane laboratory. There a noted engineer put the finest stamp on the fine career of Buzz Wagner. "During the two weeks Colonel Wagner was here," he said, "we learned more about what was needed in the way of certain airplanes than we learned in the previous year...
...MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--The besieged Japanese defense positions in the Buna area of New Guinea are being kept under continous artillery and mortar fire while Allied planes continue to blast them with bombs and bullets the Allied Command announced today...
...also probably more prisoners than MacArthur's forces had captured in the entire campaign to blast the Japs out of New Guinea. There last week General MacArthur's Australian and American ground forces moved forward toward the Buna beachhead, yard by yard: the Australians killed 150 Japs in charging one gun position, lost 66 of their own men. The Japanese defenders held an area of only four by ten miles, occupying a position roughly corresponding to that of the U.S. Marines during the worst of Guadalcanal. From concrete strongholds and jungle-covered machine-gun nests the Japs fought...
Just how important the desperate Japs considered their toe hold on the north coast of New Guinea was indicated by the price they were willing to pay for reinforcements. In ten days MacArthur's planes sank a cruiser, six destroyers and two landing boats. Some reinforcements did land. The advancing Allies found among their newest slaughter Japanese Marine shock troops with new uniforms and well-filled bellies...