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...Light of the Moon. They fought off frenzied Jap counterattacks through the daylight hours. By night they grimly fought off the animal-like enemy's infiltrating tactics. Wrote Corporal Bill Alcine, Army correspondent...
...Advance." Two days after the landing, MacArthur announced from his headquarters that the initial operation had been a "reconnaissance in force" but that because of its unexpected success it was now "being developed into complete occupation." Reinforcements were rushed to Momote airfield-just in time to stop the Jap's heaviest onslaught. At week's end another communiqué indicated that Momote airfield might be in the bag. Enemy "dead & wounded are estimated at 3.000. . . . We lost 61 killed and 244 wounded." Said General MacArthur: "Our troops are preparing to resume the advance...
...MacArthur's unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be MacArthur's next target...
From the time Allied forces occupied Bougainville and brought Rabaul within easy bomber range, it has taken an almost daily hammering from the air, was hit by almost 3,000 tons in February alone. No other Jap base in the South Pacific has absorbed such destruction. U.S. destroyers even steamed in to shell...
...Purple Heart (20th Century-Fox) was made behind locked doors, and in defiance of Washington officials who were soft-pedaling Jap atrocities. A few weeks ago, Washington changed its tune. Producer Darryl Zanuck* was urged to finish the film as soon as possible. Reason: it is a picture about Japanese atrocities, and Washington had decided to talk about the atrocities...