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...MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--Gen. MacArthur's air forces have knocked out 22 Japanese ships in the Solomon Islands area in the past week and his Australian troops are advancing with growing confidence in New Guinea, war dispatches said tonight...
Army minister Francis M. Forde asserted that "too much praise cannot be given to the men of the RAAF and U.S. Army Air Corps" for their unrelenting attacks on Japanese bases in the Island areas north of Australia and that ground forces in New Guinea believe they have taken the measure of the enemy...
...Many Fronts. For the U.S., the requirements of this war are more varied than they are for any other combatant. In the Aleutians U.S. planes are operating over water, in cold and forbidding weather. In the Solomons operations are in stifling heat and drenching rains. In Australia and New Guinea a given aircraft in a single day may fly from subtropical temperatures to the chill of early spring. It is proof of the soundness of U.S. design and the versatility of American crews that operations...
Curious soldiers clustered on a New Guinea riverbank. As the late afternoon sunlight slanted through coconut-palm fronds, a raft drifted around the river bend. Small frizzled-haired Papuan natives guided it slowly to shore. Heedless of cries of "Don't bother, we'll get it for you" from the soldiers on the bank, four Australian soldiers aboard the raft slowly gathered up possessions that only a soldier can truly treasure-firearms, rain capes, a few battered odds & ends. As they turned their sunken eyes shoreward, the shouting and chatter of the spectators ceased. The crowd parted...
...Fiji native is as black as his New Guinea cousin and wears the same unsanitary mop of fuzzy black hair, but usually shorter. He was the last of the Melanesians in that race's eastward sweep across the Pacific. But the Fiji native is in danger of losing his majority on his islands. When the idle Fiji would not cultivate the sugar fields assiduously, the British went to India for recruits. That was about 65 years ago. So prodigiously do Indians breed that there are now 94,000 Indians to 102,000 Fijis, 2,000 Chinese, 5,000 Europeans...