Word: hollandia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amphibious landings to his promised Philippine return. An oldtime Leavenworth command-school lecturer with a flair for the drama of military history, Willoughby compares MacArthur's capture of New Guinea outposts with Napoleon's campaigns, in East Prussia, and shows with maps that the boss took Hollandia by the same classic double envelopment that won Cannae for Hannibal. The distance covered in MacArthur's advance from Australian bases was "at least twice that encompassed by Napoleon, Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great in their most extended campaigns...
...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...
...Over. From the first day, Steinkraus was a show stopper; he won both opening international events, afternoon and evening, thus doubling the number of winners the whole U.S. team scored a year ago. Riding the skittish, younger (9) Hollandia, a horse that, Steinkraus says, "always thinks he's in the third race at Belmont," Billy slipped to a third place in the next event. Back on old reliable Democrat the next day, and traveling the course faultlessly, Steinkraus led the U.S. to a leg on the team title...
That night, competing for the President of Mexico Trophy (General Mariles defending), Billy brought forth such a burst of applause from the 10,000 fans that the announcer had to shush them to avoid frightening the horses. Astride Hollandia, the slight-built (5 ft. 10 in., 150 Ibs.) Steinkraus had his hands full, knocked down two of the eight obstacles. "It takes more strength than I've got to handle him," Steinkraus said. But no other rider and horse did any better over the tightly spaced course...
...Tennessee ("Old Blisterbutt") about making too much smoke, he coolly signaled back: "Smoke unavoidable. Forced to cut out the boilers and burn garbage to slow down to your speed." In 1944, promoted to rear admiral and assigned to MacArthur's theater; led an amphibian group safely through the Hollandia and Philippine invasions...