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...battle ended in a nightmare of retreat, with U.S. aircraft hacking at the enemy every step of the way back to the questionable shelter of the islands trailing off the east coast of New Guinea. When the Jap finally got there, only he could count his losses accurately. But by conservative U.S. count he had lost 21 ships, sunk or disabled. And he had unquestionably taken a beating-the first serious defeat of his headlong career through the South Pacific...
Intention Known. Both Army & Navy pilots, ranging far to sea from bases and carriers, had seen the battle building up. Three weeks ago the Jap had begun massing a task force in the Marshalls, 1,700 miles north of New Guinea, and his force there set Chester Nimitz and Douglas MacArthur to work at the deadliest guessing game they had ever sat in. Where would the Jap strike...
...gave himself away. He had to, because his rendezvous point was squarely under the eyes of MacArthurs pilots. For a fortnight the Jap, massed transports and fighting ships off Lae and Salamaua, the ports he had seized on the north side of New Guinea. For a fortnight he piled equipment, men and ships into the port of Rabaul on New Britain...
...worked hard to hide what he was doing. He struck daily and with increasing fury at the Allied base at Port Moresby on the south shore of New Guinea, seemed willing to spend men and planes recklessly to drive the United Nations from their bases there. He also smashed at Darwin, but with less determination, presumably because it was harder to get to, and because it could wait its turn...
Meanwhile MacArthur's Army airplanes from Australia and New Guinea had picked up the main Jap body moving south, presumably near the Louisiade Archipelago. In that first phase, while the U.S. naval force left the Jap to wonder where it had gone after striking him. Army aircraft plastered him continually, day after...