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...figures on Biak and Wakde dead alone are almost triple your complete figures, and that is excluding the other five places of action your article mentioned...
...Allied died at Biak, Wakde, Aitape, Arawe, Gloucester, the Admiralties...
South of the Philippines, U.S. troops picked up another small parcel of Pacific real estate, this time the tiny Mapia Islands off Dutch New Guinea. Presumably they were taken as flank protection for the U.S. air base on Biak. Meanwhile U.S. Liberator bombers flew 800 miles to bomb the important Japanese naval base at Brunei Bay on the far side of Borneo, scoring five hits on a battleship, four on a cruiser. Both ships, presumably cripples or survivors of last month's naval battle, were left blazing...
From then on, the pattern was so consistent that even the beleagured Jap commanding the Second Army should have been able to figure it out: Wakde Island-on May 17; Biak on May 27; Noemfoor on July 2. But the Jap apparently persisted in the conviction that MacArthur's next move would be against Second Army headquarters at Manokwari...
...Guam, in process of liberation; Tinian under invasion. From these points, U.S. land-based bombers could bring the whole sea under their bombsights. The sea's western reaches were in the range of B245 and 6-295, operating from China; its southern reaches could be covered from the Biak-Noemfoor area off New Guinea. These ranges fanned out and overlapped. The islands studding these waters held Jap garrisons for whom death was certain: U.S. forces were coming to get them...