Word: kavieng
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...responsible for the strangling of his grandfather in New Guinea had been tried and sentenced. He knew that 64-year-old John William Bell had been among a party of 23 Australian nationals, including a 14-year-old boy, who were rounded up and garrotted on New Ireland's Kavieng wharf in 1942. War crimes investigators indicted six Japanese over the massacre in the late 1940s. But what Bell didn't know was that the Australian government dropped the case against a seventh man, the officer who decreed that the victims be strangled. "I think it would have been proper...
...Australian officials, under pressure to shut down the trials, decided to slash the remaining cases from 45 to 20, mainly because they did not relate to Australian servicemen, because the identities of the victims were unclear, or because prosecution might not have resulted in the death penalty. The Kavieng case was just one example. "The cold war considerations had imposed themselves, and the new Menzies government decided that it needed to accept Japan as an ally,'' says historian Michael Carrel, who recently completed a Ph.D. thesis on the subject...
...accommodate the one-month schedule, the route of the Pacific passage was unkinked into a more or less straight line from Honolulu to Kavieng, on the northwest tip of New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago. Sealestial covered more than 3,500 nautical miles; ports of call included inhospitable Johnston Atoll, believed to be the site of a U.S. poison-gas depot, where even such minimum security risks as a former ambassador and the editor of the National Review were denied an overnight parking space...
...knots. They steamed through narrow passages of the Solomons so often and so fast that Burke had to be warned to slow down there: his ships were washing the Army's waterside privies away as fast as they could be built. They shelled Buka and Kavieng, ranged west to the Bismarcks and beyond toward Truk. There was no slackening of their speed, no change in the quality of their shooting...
Together General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey now had completed the ring around the Japanese in Rabaul and Kavieng. For nearly a year General Mac-Arthur has had "strategic direction" of the double campaign. From now on theirs would be definitely a single operation...