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Simultaneously other Australians struck across the mountains to envelop the enemy from Finschhaven to Madang 200 miles beyond. Jap troops on the whole Huon Peninsula were pocketed. Despite talk of new Jap planes (see p. 20), MacArthur held complete and vitally effective command of the air. It was a climax to MacArthur's New Guinea campaign, which according to Brigadier General Charles Willoughby, MacArthur's intelligence chief, had been fought with "pinchpenny precise planning." The margin of success was always so small that MacArthur could never "afford to be wrong...
...first phase of the Battle of Italy had ended. Between them, the Fifth, pinning down the main German force in the lower peninsula, and the Eighth,* pounding up the toe, heel and shank, had consolidated the first bridgehead on main land Europe. Now the second phase could begin...
...Italy is a road to the Reich. But it is a long road: 800 miles from Salerno to the Brenner Pass. The peninsula is wrinkled with mountains. As in Tunisia and Sicily, relatively small German units could hold the ridges, command the valleys and coastal defiles, give ground slowly and at a price...
...road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads to southern France. Because the Alpine passes narrow and drop steeply on the Italian side of the border, it is a military axiom that France is not readily assaulted from Italy. But from ports on the peninsula's west coast and from newly won Sardinia and Corsica (see p. 78), the Allies might strive for a bridgehead at theRhone's mouth, thereby begin the liberation of France and a march to the Rhine. >Italy is a springboard to the Balkans, where the passes and valleys...
General Douglas MacArthur demonstrated in New Guinea that he is a great offensive commander. In less than three weeks he gobbled up most of the Huon Peninsula. In twelve days he enveloped and captured Lae. Six days later he swept around Finschhaven, 70 miles beyond Lae on the Huon Gulf. His airborne Australians attacked inland. His seaborne Australians landed on the coast above Finschhaven, with mortar fire and bayonet established a bridgehead and seized Finschhaven airport. At week's end the fall of Finschhaven itself was imminent, and the Japs were reduced to a few last toe holds...