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...Australia's northern perimeter of islands the Japanese had to take more than they dished out last week. Allied bombs ripped ships and men in the harbors of New Guinea and New Britain. Bombs tore runways, wrecked hangars and aircraft on invasion airdromes of New Guinea and Timor. Said a spokesman in Melbourne: "We are trying to keep the Japanese from stabilizing their position. . . . If we had a little more equipment, we could...
...bombs hit New Guinea's Port Moresby, ahead of advancing jungle troops. (see p. 19) Toward the east, along the line the Japs might follow toward New Zealand or eastern Australia, more bombs struck Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. Jap scouts hovered over Australia's northeastern tip and the islands of the Torres Strait. U.S. P-40s based at Darwin met attacking bombers and fighters, knocked several from the sky. Jap warships were reported here & there on the approaches to Australia, but either the reports were mistaken or the Japs were feinting, feeling for Allied naval weakness...
...Shall Return." From the take-off point to northern Australia was an eleven-hour flight for the Fortresses. Below them, or very near their course as air space is measured, lay the conquered Indies, the Japanese airdromes and troop centers on Timor, the New Guinea airfields and harbors where the Japs were massing and Allied bombs were dropping. It was a course straight across Japan's new Pacific barriers, and it was a course for Douglas MacArthur to remember on the southward flight. He expected to retrace it some...
...Darwin (pop. about 5,000). It may well be the first to meet invasion forces from the sea. Darwin, its adjoining coasts and the open desert in its rear are valuable to Australia because: 1) they lie within bomber reach of the Japanese in Java, Timor and New Guinea; 2) they form a front against overland penetration from the north. Darwin would be valuable to the Japs for its harbor and its airdromes, but mainly because, when conquered, it would no longer be a U.S.-Australian base for attack on Japan's southern line...
Japs to the East? Since the Japs moved on New Guinea's Port Moresby by air and land, they have seemed to be reaching for Australia's long (2,900 mi.), vulnerable eastern coast. But even if they win Port Moresby's excellent harbor as a concentration point for their convoys, then leap to Cape York and southward toward Brisbane, they will have a hazardous and costly job. They will have to penetrate the long, jagged Great Barrier Reef, whose entrances have been well mined. Their transports and warships should be under continuous air assault from land...