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When U.S. troops were advancing on Salamaua a fortnight ago, Lieut. Colonel Archibald Roosevelt and a small party set off in a boat to make a reconnaissance tour of Salamaua harbor. Archie ordered the boat close in to the shore. Jap guns began firing. In the boat was Technician (5th grade) John Bertot, who later told the story...
Most of the Japs had gone. Some 20,000 were originally reported to have been surrounded in the Salamaua-Lae area. Some of them had fled into the jungle, where a few were tracked down and killed. Many others may have managed to escape up the coast in barges. It was obvious that the first estimate of their number was exaggerated. A few who were left resisted to the end. Last official count of total Jap dead: 1,000. The chief prize: Lae airfield. Three miles northeast of the Lae strips was the Malahang airfield, which also fell into Allied...
...across the Southern Pacific front, air attacks against the Japanese intensified. The Fifth Air Force struck again at Wewak, to which the Japs rushed another supply of planes after Kenney's pilots wiped out their nest three weeks ago. Flying Fortresses destroyed ten Jap bombers on the ground, knocked out probably 59 fighters of 70-80 that rose to intercept them...
...Force sent 250 medium and heavy bombers against Bougainville in one day. The Japanese, with recent reinforcements flown in from other bases, made three attempts at retaliation: to minor raids on Guadalcanal, one minor raid on Funafuti. Spokesmen asserted that air patrols had made it impossible for any sizable Jap naval force to remain south of Rabaul for more than 24 hours...
Then four companies of Japanese attacked nearby Chinese barracks housing some 10,000 troops. The Chinese, who had orders from Young Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang not to resist, retired. Other Jap companies marched into Mukden, three miles down the line. By morning they were in full possession and had started to persuade the world that China was a synonym for chaos and the setting up of puppet "Manchukuo" a regrettable necessity. It was Sept...