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Nowhere, save at Blue Beach, did the Sixth Army encounter the defenses or the bloody kind of resistance found at Munda and Tarawa. Its casualties were light. It quickly dispersed a numerically weak Jap garrison. Within five hours it had made good the landing. The Arawe peninsula and its key coastal isles were taken. The mopping up was not completed when U.S. troops began to enlarge their beachhead...
Through Arawe's coconut groves the Japs had cut a runway now unused and overgrown by tropical bush. Arawe's harbor served as a barge-staging point for supplies to Jap centers on New Britain's south coast. In American hands Arawe would sever one enemy line of communication, would provide a jumping-off place for the next Allied amphibious advance. Most important, it would turn an idle airstrip into a forward base against Rabaul...
Today the Japs are the only ones who know the true strength of the Marshalls' defenses. U.S. reconnaissance, dating from tlie Navy's first raid on the islands in January 1942, has put the main Jap works on five atolls...
Offshore reefs are strung with barbed wire and tank blocks. Beaches are covered by machine-gun nests. Even if the Jap Navy does not come out, even if Jap air power is scotched, a U.S. landing force will find the Marshalls no pushover...
Mark Wayne Clark, Brehon B. Somer-vell, Joseph W. Stilwell, Joseph T. Mc-Narney, Ira C. Eaker, Carl Spaatz, Millard F. Harmon, Omar Nelson Bradley, Robert L. Eichelberger, George C. Kenney and Jap-imprisoned Jonathan M. Wainwright. Also held up were the promotions of two major generals: Thomas T. Handy and Walter B. Smith...