Word: halmahera
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Along a 6,000-mile arc of the Japs' Pacific defenses the Allied blows fell thick & fast. They flared like lightning strokes from Sumatra, where the Allied Eastern Fleet beat up Padang and Emmahaven, to Halmahera, where the enemy feared General MacArthur's next amphibious stroke, to the Kurils, northeast of Japan...
...Japanese there was no choice but to wait, and wonder where the next amphibious assault would strike. It might be Halmahera, as Tokyo had nervously predicted, or it might be the Philippines. Or it might be a swift lunge across the Empire's marine artery which would set marines and soldiers down on Formosa or the China coast...
...Between western New Guinea and the southern Philippines. Principal island: Halmahera...
...week General Douglas MacArthur moved 200 miles closer to the Philippines. Leapfrogging along the coast of New Guinea, his troops landed on the island's northwestern tip at Sansapor, grabbed two coastal islands in the bargain. Said MacArthur: "The enemy is now unable to operate beyond his Philippine-Halmahera line"-i.e., the Jap was out of New Guinea so far as any more offensive action was concerned...
...another need before the final drive on Japan was begun: the ground forces had to have room to stretch themselves. General Douglas MacArthur, in the Southwest Pacific, was in the best position for such a move, and inching closer to the takeoff point. From westernmost New Guinea to Halmahera was an easy distance (200 miles) by the new U.S. Pacific standards; from Halmahera it is another short hop (400 miles) to Mindanao in the Philippines...