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This week, after a thoroughgoing aerial bombardment, U.S. troops under Douglas MacArthur's command landed on tiny Noemfoor Island, 60 miles west of Biak off the north "New Guinea coast. They seized Karmiri airfield, went to work mopping up. On Biak, MacArthur's men already controlled an airfield only 880 miles from the Philippines. Noemfoor's field is 80 miles closer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Blood and Dust | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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