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This was the first official hint of what may well be Douglas MacArthur's plan to reduce Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific stronghold. The Admiralties lie on Rabaul's western flank. Kavieng, at the top of New Ireland Island, lies 150 miles to Rabaul's north, is a way station from Truk. Allied bases on the Admiralties and New Ireland, combined with bases already established in the Solomons, New Guinea and New Britain, will mean the encirclement of Rabaul. Last week the air-and-sea pincers were pressed from the Solomons, where a 17-months' campaign...
...Italian Army unit since Italy surrendered, they wanted desperately to make good. Through the cold dawn the infantry moved up the hill with spirit, cheered by the friendly Americans. They forged ahead, swept to the summit. Three hours later, a ponderous German barrage pinned them down. The Italian left flank, staggering from severe losses, slowly gave way. With their flank exposed, the Italians wavered and broke...
...night, early in the Empress Augusta Bay operation, Sergeant Azine's company slipped into the jungle to hold a "road-block," an outpost guarding the approach to the Marines' beachhead. Miasmal swamp and forest hemmed the area. Most of the company bivouacked smack on the trail. Flank units took position in the jungle; they alone might use firearms, because they alone could shoot without danger of hitting their comrades. Marines on the trail were limited to knives, entrenching tools, fists, or any weapon that would do a job silently...
...Invade States' Rights? Southern Congressmen bitterly and openly opposed what looked like a flank attack on the poll tax. Mississippi's James Eastland spoke for a large group: "The sole issue ... is whether we are to turn the election machinery of the country over to an aggregation of power-crazy bureaucrats in Washington...
...wheeling drive. Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth held the hinge along the Garigliano River, pinned down the bulk of ten Nazi divisions. General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth butted to the Sangro River, threatened to envelop the German defense of Rome from the Adriatic flank...