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Slowly the Australians from the southwest and the Americans from the southeast pressed the Japs in New Guinea back to the sea. Airpower, artillery and sound planning were winning the campaign for the Allies. For the Japs, it was New Guinea's jungle, tougher and hungrier than any they had seen before, which was losing it. This time the Japs underestimated the jungle and wore out its welcome...
...MacArthur's critical weakness has been ships. But he mustered at least enough to carry out a flanking operation on the north coast. Troops from Milne Bay, on New Guinea's eastern tip, sailed 50 miles northward and landed at Goodenough Island, "clearing remnants of hostile forces...
Airman Kenney. For this good news the U.S. could give George Kenney and his airmen much credit. Starting with worn-out planes and weary pilots, General Kenney in three months had: 1) all but knocked out what planes the Japs could spare to New Guinea; 2) helped to stop one Jap landing at Milne Bay and knocked out a Jap attempt to reinforce Buna; 3) bombed Jap bases in New Britain and the northern Solomons day after day to help the Marines hold Guadalcanal (see below). For a month George Kenney's pursuit planes had been so free...
...educated at Catholic convents in Manhattan and France. She studied music in Paris, worked for the British Red Cross in World War I. She has followed her Navy husband (now "somewhere at sea") to stations in China, Europe, the West Indies, has traveled in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Malaya, India...
Later Seabrook relapsed, turned the barn at his swagger Dutchess County home into a scientific "research" laboratory. With "research girls" for guinea pigs, Seabrook and his friends "evoked . . . 'gods' and 'devils,' " dabbled in witchcraft and clairvoyance. Once more Seabrook began to drink, was cured again by an impetuous girl who forced him to plunge his elbows into boiling water. This treatment shocked him back to reality, made him realize that "the only way to write a book is to apply the seat of the pants to the seat of a chair -and write it." Result...