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...line carriers. The CVEs were entrusted with the job of covering the Saipan operation while the big carriers moved on to meet the Jap fleet off the Philippines. Last week a CVE air squadron, Composite Squadron 33, was home after ten months of combat in the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Hollandia, Aitape and the Marianas. Planes and guns of the baby carrier had destroyed 35 Jap aircraft. The little flattops had become an offensive weapon...
MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet was joined by the best part of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' Pacific Fleet, with carriers and battleships, for the crucial move on April 22: double landings at Hollandia and Aitape, both beyond Wewak-and beyond 50,000 Japs. The Aussies simultaneously captured Madang, completing the trap...
General Hatazo Adachi was in a trap. Since General MacArthur's leapfrog landings along the New Guinea coast at Aitape and Hollandia last April 22, his Eighteenth Army had been hemmed between the sea to the north, Australians to the east, mountains to the south and Americans to the west. Adachi had seen his force dwindle from 60,000 to 45,000 (round numbers estimated at General MacArthur's headquarters), as a result of daily bombings and disease hastened by hunger...
...described the U.S. landing at Hollandia: "A little native boy came running into our camp on that glorious morning and told us that a great grey ship with many airplanes was off the shore. We didn't dare hope, but we thought it might be the Americans. The Japs told us the ship was probably theirs, bringing in new planes and reinforcements. But we could see the Japs were worried. Later we heard that 50,000 Americans and many ships had arrived. We could see the Japs were panicky...
...ward toward the Americans, toward their guns, shouting. Suddenly, the Americans heard him. They dropped their guns, ran forward and the missionaries and soldiers embraced each other. It was wonderful." Sick, Exhausted, Starving. Sister Antonia was one of 123 U.S., German, Polish, Czech, Australian and Swiss missionaries liberated at Hollandia by surprised U.S. soldiers (TIME, May 22). The missionaries were completely exhausted...