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...GUINEA AND THE MARIANAS (435 pp.) - Samuel Eliot Morison- Little, Brown...
Suddenly, in the four months from April through July 1944, U.S. forces take giant steps to victory. MacArthur leapfrogs nearly 1,000 miles along the New Guinea coast to threaten the Philippines. The Navy moves into the Marianas, 3,500 miles from Pearl Harbor, strips the Japanese fleet of its air arm in a great battle off Saipan and sets up new advance bases. And the Marines and Army take Saipan, Tinian and Guam...
...says Historian Morison, there was disagreement among U.S. commanders as to the best route to Tokyo. General MacArthur "firmly believed in the one road to Tokyo, his own," along the New Guinea-Philippines axis, with the Navy in a supporting role. The Navy was convinced that "relentless pressure by sea power could defeat Japan short of invasion." The Marianas, Admiral King felt, was the logical base from which to attack Japan's inner defenses. The Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered that both roads be taken...
...Bird's Head. On April 22, 1944, like three streams of tracers arcing toward their targets, troops of MacArthur's 32nd, 24th and 41st Divisions landed at Aitape, Tanahmerah and Humboldt Bays. Their goal: three first-rate airstrips at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. Since the Japs had conveniently parked 340 planes, wingtip to wingtip, to be destroyed days before, 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...
...This one came for guinea hen and a good-humored exchange of campaign reminiscences...