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Once before - at Lae - General MacArthur had 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...
...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...
Land-based airmen no longer claimed that each Jap base would fall as soon as they had a chance to give it a good pounding. But they did know that land-based power was in a better position than ever to do its geared-in job, along with carrier forces and amphibious troops...
This week, with a fine collection of staging points for troops, harbors for naval craft and fields for aircraft strung along New Guinea's coast, MacArthur set his bombers at pounding westward, beyond the big island's tip, at the Jap base at Timor. Like other air assaults all the way north to the Kurils, it was only a succession of tentative jabs. But the jabs would be followed, somewhere along the Japs' defensive arc, by a heavy blow. The Pacific was being set for another great assault...