Word: hollandia
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...General MacArthur's U.S. troops hopped 125 miles westward (from newly won Hollandia) along the north coast of New Guinea to capture the two Wakde Islands and the adjacent mainland base of Sarmi...
...Ayres, onetime cinema glamor boy, now a gaunt and grizzled chaplain's aide at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, decided that he had found what he had always wanted. The former "Dr. Kildare"* plans to enter a seminary after the Avar, eventually preach from a Congregational pulpit. Said he: "I want to continue this work, God willing...
Reports last week from Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, said that 150 Japanese had surrendered there. Some of them stood beside a road until a U.S. truck gave them a lift to prison camp...
...might have been that the Japs at Hollandia were only supply troops (i.e., scrubs of the Japanese Army) and not the fighting garrison General MacArthur expected to find. It was too early to generalize. But obviously not all Japs yearned to die with their colonel...
Result of these conferences was that MacArthur got all the Navy help he needed for the Hollandia assault, that stories of bickering between Army and Navy began to fade, even from the scuttlebutt...