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From new beachheads at Buna and Gona Mission, Japanese foot soldiers slithered through the dark jungles of New Guinea like drops of mercury spilled on a door mat. They were far down below their landing points before the last of their force had set foot aground. But this time they ran into opposition that was more jungle-wise than they...
...advance parties fired their first shots. Allied scouts had worked their way across the mountains and were waiting. Most of them were not professional soldiers: they were prospectors, trappers and foresters, and their lives had long depended on living off the country, hiding in it from New Guinea's cannibal natives...
...victory. There would be more Japs. They had Kokoda and they would probably try to force the pass. The threat to Port Moresby would be serious. If the enemy made his objective, he would have pushed the Allies a good 350 miles farther away from Japanese bases on New Guinea and New Britain. So Douglas MacArthur's ground soldiers were out to stop him short of the pass, while his airmen, with what strength they had, pecked at his new position on the northern coast...
Later Pierre (Maurice Tauzin) falls in. A chance nose count by Pied Piper Woolley reveals that a towheaded Dutch waif named Willem (Merrill Rodin) is also with them. Says Woolley: "I am occasionally seized with the conviction that I am convoying guinea pigs...
...only. There are no civilians left in New Guinea. Papua's white population was never more than 2,000. Those who were not taken into the Australian army, chiefly for such jobs as required dealing with natives, were evacuated six months ago and more. There are no women. Even native women have been sent back into the hills. Native men are brought in from their villages for two-month turns at simple, light labor. They wear dirty skirts called ramis and spend their idle moments combing their hair with four-pronged metal forks...