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...award of the highest medal in his power to give was announced by General MacArthur: the Distinguished Service Cross to Second Lieutenant Robert M. Wilde of Sioux City, Iowa-posthumously. In the fighting over New Guinea last May, when Japanese Zeros outclimbed, outmaneuvered and outnumbered U.S. Airacobras, Mike Wilde sat in the clouds, preparing to come in. He radioed that he had left only ten minutes' gasoline. Then he looked down, saw three Zeros on the tail of his flight commander. Although he had no gasoline for a fight, although his decision could mean only death, Wilde dived...
...overland "assault" across New Guinea's mountains consisted of a handful of troops, as the Australians found when they chased them back over the steep peaks and through the steaming jungles. In all New Guinea, which is bigger than Texas, it is estimated that there are not more than 20,000 Japs. General MacArthur has enough men to retake New Guinea, but offensives risk ships and the prize may not be worth the cost...
Japan's enemies were learning about the Japanese weapon: surprise is worth many divisions. They were learning, at last, how to fight the Japanese brand of jungle warfare. And in the Aleutians, in the New Guinea area and in the Solomons the Japs were taking a course in the cost of long communication lines: about 344 planes lost, 19 ships sunk, 21 damaged since Aug. 1. The Japanese could put a few hundred men on an island. Supplying and reinforcing them was another matter. Wake Island is farther from Tokyo than it is from Honolulu; Kiska is about...
Green-clad Australian troops swept on to the Gap atop New Guinea's Owen Stanley Mountain Range, neared Kokoda, which had been occupied by the Japs in August. But Lieut. General Sydney Fairbairn Rowell's crack Imperial troops had not yet found the main Jap forces which were supposed to be threatening Port Moresby. U.S. pilots strafed and bombed villages further along which the enemy had been known to occupy. General Rowell ordered up supplies, guns, ammunition, more troops, prepared to strengthen his positions along one of the world's wildest jungle-&-mountain trails, just in case...
...Mare Nostrum" is what the unoriginal Japanese broadcasters call the Arafura Sea, which separates Australia's north coast from the western half of New Guinea. This Jap-claimed sea, nearly 4,000 miles south of Tokyo, is half the size of the Gulf of Mexico, is dotted with some 200 small islands divided into three archipelagos. Last week Tokyo Radio claimed that Japanese troops had occupied some more of these islands. There was no one to dispute the claim. The Japanese had been inching into outposts of The Netherlands East Indies ever since they seized Timor last February. They...