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...three surviving brothers joined up again in World War II. Kermit died, at 53, on active duty in Alaska in June 1943. Archie, wounded last month, at 50 is a lieutenant colonel, fighting on Biak Island. "Young Teddy" saw action in Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and Normandy, was thrice wounded...
This week, after a thoroughgoing aerial bombardment, U.S. troops under Douglas MacArthur's command landed on tiny Noemfoor Island, 60 miles west of Biak off the north "New Guinea coast. They seized Karmiri airfield, went to work mopping up. On Biak, MacArthur's men already controlled an airfield only 880 miles from the Philippines. Noemfoor's field is 80 miles closer...
...Warrant Officer, 2nd Class, named Wright Windadge was in charge of a landing craft delivering jeeps to our troops on Biak. Just before making the landing an unaccountable swell shook the craft and the jeeps fell into the sea. When the troops ashore demanded to know where their transportation was, Windadge replied: "Many brave jeeps lie asleep in the deep...
Next day this Windadge was ordered to unload on Biak a cargo of C-rations. Again an unaccountable swell dumped the food into the sea. When the troops ashore demanded to know where their rations were, Windadge replied: "Full fathom five thy fodder lies...
...south, General Douglas Mac-Arthur's forces battled for two more Jap airfields on Biak Island off New Guinea; his planes flew from previously captured Jap fields to blast such strong points as Truk in the Caroline Islands. It appeared that this whole, forbidding 2,000-mile chain had now been definitely bypassed...