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...United Nations command hung grimly to its toehold on the near side of the vast island of New Guinea (one-tenth the area of the U.S.) and strove to shake loose the hold of the Jap on the other side. The Jap bounced right back, raided the Allies' New Guinea base at Port Moresby almost daily...
This was dingdong business, and likely to be for some time, since each side needed more power to strike a decisive blow. The Jap, for one, was piling up his tools. Pilots told of increasing numbers of Jap ships headed for New Guinea and New Britain off to the east. The United Nations knew that might mean anything, even an assault on Australia itself. They halfway hoped it would come, felt more confident as the days went by that they could stop the Jap. But they were less sure than they were a week...
Scoop in New Caledonia. Meanwhile the United Nations, sure that if they could hold on to New Guinea's foothold they would have a jump-off place against the Jap, forestalled him in another south Pacific area. Washington announced that U.S. troops had landed in New Caledonia, a Free French island 700 miles east of Australia. It was a prize the Jap would have given a lot of men to take, for it lies athwart the lifeline from the U.S. to Down Under. It is also incredibly rich in minerals -No. 2 world producer of nickel...
...Force in Australia reached across the Torres Strait to smash at the Jap on New Guinea, airmen from Main Street got acquainted with exotic strangers...
...Another crew, forced down in the wilds of New Guinea, slept in their plane, awoke next morning to find themselves surrounded by little G-strung men who carried wicked three-foot knives. An airman from Coweta, Okla., shivering from dengue fever, and his hale companion from Springfield, Ill. both got good care, found they were among benevolent neutrals. Said one of the natives: "Jap come, we friend him; white man come, we friend...