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...Japs last week began to execute this invasion plan. When they landed forces at Salamaua and Lae in Australia's outlying New Guinea, they were 400 miles from Cape York. Again they bombed Port Moresby, New Guinea's chief sea town. They were almost ready to invade Australia...
Melbourne reported that United Nations planes had knocked out at least 13 Japanese transports and one or two warships of the Nipponese invasion fleet which was believed to be heading for Port Moresby, New Guinea, off the Northeast Australian Coast...
Stanley's first guinea-pig prime contractor was Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. The first "Directory of Contract Opportunities" was ready in December. It contained 132 coded jobs to be done, and soothing instructions on how to use it ("Don't take one look at this directory and then decide it is too complicated. . . . Anyone who can read a telephone book can read this"). Jim Stanley and Westinghouse Production Engineer S. W. ("Bill") Schmidt went to Indianapolis, where a pool of 15 local factories and shops had agreed to try the plan in a small way. Bill Schmidt...
Yellow Lava. When the Allies divided Germany's Pacific empire after World War I, Australia shared New Guinea half-&-half with the Dutch, also got the neighboring Bismarck Archipelago and renamed its chief islands New Britain and New Ireland. Similarly mandated to Australia were the nearby, seemingly insignificant Solomons. Japan got the Marshalls and the Carolines. All the mandating powers promised not to fortify their new protectorates...
...planes overhead. Aussie militiamen radioed that they would blow up the town's wharf and power station and retreat fighting. Then no more was heard from Rabaul by radio. The Jap landed in the Solomons, in New Ireland, at a few tentative points in ill-defended New Guinea...