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...been a tough fight. It would be rugged until the last Jap was off Los Negros. But the main objectives had been captured. Momote airfield, swiftly taken, had been rehabilitated and U.S. fighter craft were operating from its strip in support of forward units. Jap shore batteries on nearby Manus Island had been silenced by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's navy and supply-burdened LSTs were unloading without enemy interference. One of the first Navy shipments: fresh beef to supplement the Army's K-rations...
Chief objective of the landing was Momote airfield, a base from which to strike at: 1) Rabaul (see p. 19); 2) Manus, the largest of the Admiralty group; 3) Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea, which the Japs are believed to be hopefully developing into a base that might be strong enough to guard their East Indies lifeline...
...Resume the Advance." Two days after the landing, MacArthur announced from his headquarters that the initial operation had been a "reconnaissance in force" but that because of its unexpected success it was now "being developed into complete occupation." Reinforcements were rushed to Momote airfield-just in time to stop the Jap's heaviest onslaught. At week's end another communiqué indicated that Momote airfield might be in the bag. Enemy "dead & wounded are estimated at 3.000. . . . We lost 61 killed and 244 wounded." Said General MacArthur: "Our troops are preparing to resume the advance...
...rendezvous somewhere over Nazi Europe, the sleek Thunderbolts turned over their bomber-escort mission to other U.S. fighter planes and streaked for their British base. On the way they spotted a tempting enemy airfield, with planes lined up along the runway. It was too good to pass up. The flight leader, Major Walter Carl Beckham, 18-victory U.S. ace of the European Theater (TIME, Feb. 21), called four planes and roared down for a strafe...
Training of Engineer Petroleum Distribution Units is being rushed by the Army Service Forces in a special area at Camp Claiborne, La. So important have the pipelines become that the Army Engineers' priority list puts only bulldozers and steel airfield mats ahead of them...