Word: hollandia
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...Hollandia there were crated Japanese airplane engines, heavy guns, trucks, tractors, a radio station, ammunition dumps, medical supplies, food - including beer, wine, French champagne, British marmalade. But there were few, if any, Japs. The strong American forces which had landed at Tanahamera and Humboldt Bays pushed rapidly inland this week, spearheaded by road-building bulldozers...
They swarmed across Lake Sentani in amphibious landing craft, quickly captured the three Hollandia airfields. Except for scattered sniping, the only Jap opposition was an ineffectual 14-plane torpedo attack on a U.S. destroyer in Hollandia Bay and a single plane bombing of the Jap supply dump, which exploded like a string of firecrackers down two miles of beach...
...landed in force at a supposed Jap stronghold, had found few Japs. They had been pulled off balance by an assault on Salamaua farther down the coast, had reinforced Salamaua at the expense of Lae. It appeared last week that something of the same sort had happened at Hollandia...
...pressure had been brought heavily to bear on the intermediate base of Wewak, apparently causing the Japs to concentrate there, in anticipation of invasion. Aitape and Hollandia were left in the hands of service troops, most of whom quickly retreated to the jungle-robed hills. That the Japs had not pulled out of Dutch New Guinea was evident in the supplies captured at Humboldt Bay. Somewhere between Aitape-Hollandia and Madang (which was taken last week by Australian troops) are the remnants of the Japanese Eighteenth Army, reported to be elements of six divisions and one brigade (about...
MacArthur's sweep west along the New Guinea coast, spearheaded and backed by the greatest concentration of naval power he had ever had, had given the U.S. new airfields 500 miles closer to the enemy's inner positions. From the three big airdromes at Hollandia (on which U.S. engineers worked this week), U.S. long-range bombers can now reach the southern tip of the Philippines (although with minimum loads), can also bite heavily into the Jap chain from the onetime Dutch naval base at Amboina, up through the Pacific arc to Guam...