Word: biak
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...mainly by General Kenney's Fifth Air Force, there was no air resistance. Bare of fighting forces, since the local Japanese commander expected to be attacked at Wewak, Hollandia proved to be a giveaway. Counterattacking Jap forces at Aitape were slaughtered, and MacArthur pushed west to Wakde and Biak...
...Biak was no giveaway. Intelligence had placed the island's defenders at 2,000; there were actually 10,000, including crack veterans of the China campaign. Ably led and zealously fanatic, they fought for a month before they were subdued. In the meantime, MacArthur pushed on to Noem-foor and by July 31 was perched on the New Guinea bird's head at Sansapor about 600 miles from Mindanao. There Author Morison leaves him to backtrack to Admiral Spruance, "Operation Forager," and the Marianas...
...Biak & Beyond. At Biak, Eichelberger was sent to rescue another bogged-down force, again superseded a classmate (Major General Horace H. Fuller), straightened out the situation with less trouble than he had had at Buna. It was a clever job of tactics-no frontal assaults, much fast-stepping, cleverly conceived flank movement, a swift securing of the three vital Biak airfields. For such imaginative tactics MacArthur made Eichelberger commander of the new Eighth Army...
...this month, the Eighth had counted 58,365 Jap dead and 1,759 prisoners in its forward areas, another 3,735 dead and 461 prisoners in such rear areas as Biak and Hollandia...
...killed in the Civil War, remained on patrol. She ducked Jap air attacks, captured a motor-driven sampan with three prisoners. From that day on she was up to her gunwales in the Pacific war: she fought in the Solomons, bombarded Aitape, took part in the Aitape and Biak landings, saw action at Cape Sansapor, Morotai, Dinagat, Leyte...