Word: biak
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...powerful, seasoned invasion team -Army, Navy and Air - swung along the north coast of New Guinea, pounced on Biak, a large island only 300 miles from New Guinea's western tip. Once taken - a job at which the task force was bloodily busy this week - Biak would be a real strategic asset to the U.S. in its drive into Japan's inner defenses...
...Biak has three airfields. It is less than 900 miles from Davao on the southern tip of the Philippines, about 500 miles from Palau, the Jap naval base in the western Carolines...