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This sudden attack last week in General Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific theater put U.S. forces athwart another enemy communication line, further isolated some 72,000 Japs-22,000 in the Solomons, 50,000 in New Britain-by Douglas MacArthur's accounting...
From Honolulu, Admiral Chester Nimitz could attack with carrier forces and amphibious troops across the central Pacific, seizing bases from which the Navy could get athwart Japan's communications with her southern holdings. The other Navy objective: to seek out the Jap and destroy him. Supplementary to Nimitz's drive, but more as a diversion than a major operation, planes could attack Jap outposts from the Aleutians...
...Doenitz the Fuhrer pinned a ribbon last week "in recognition of his singular merits in the conduct of the U-boat war." The singular Doenitz had shifted his attack north and west. U-boats, out of range of land-based planes, were hunting again in the mid-Atlantic, sleeplessly athwart the lines to Britain, North Africa and Russia...
...Axis sent about 250 bombers and fighters against Malta in renewed mass attacks but the British announced that damage was slight and that only one Spitfire fighter plane was lost. Raids on Malta, which sits athwart the Axis supply line to North Africa, usually precede large scale convey operations...
...Japan had moved into the Aleutians, flanking Soviet Kamchatka and sitting athwart one important U.S.-Russian communication line...