Word: kavieng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury Islands, Allied planes ranged north. They raked Jap barge traffic coming down the Pacific islands to Rabaul. Daily they swept over Rabaul's five airfields, flushed as many as 80 Jap Zeros in one day, knocked down as many as 18. Nightly they struck farther: at Kavieng, on New Ireland, a way station between Truk and Rabaul. U.S. carrier-based planes pounded Kavieng's shipping. On New Year's Day they left two cruisers, one destroyer blazing; three days later, they hit two destroyers...
...American attack ruptured this supply line, gave the U.S. Navy dominance in the waters between New Britain and New Guinea. But General MacArthur's communique made clear that the chief prize was Cape Gloucester's runways: in Allied hands, they "will shortly bring the Kavieng-Admiralty Islands area within reach of our land-based air attack...
This was the first official hint of what may well be Douglas MacArthur's plan to reduce Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific stronghold. The Admiralties lie on Rabaul's western flank. Kavieng, at the top of New Ireland Island, lies 150 miles to Rabaul's north, is a way station from Truk. Allied bases on the Admiralties and New Ireland, combined with bases already established in the Solomons, New Guinea and New Britain, will mean the encirclement of Rabaul. Last week the air-and-sea pincers were pressed from the Solomons, where a 17-months' campaign...
...deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will continue until either the Jap's or our air force is wiped out." After four days of onslaughts by heavy, high-flying bombers and tree-shaving B-25s, the Jap force, desperately reinforced by planes from Rabaul and Kavieng, was wiped out. By week's end Whitehead's pilots had destroyed 223 Jap planes on the ground and 83 in the air, which brought to well over 500 the number of Jap planes destroyed in the Southwest area since June 16. Allied losses...
...good troops: one division had fought several months in China against the Communist Chu Teh, another had fought through Burma, another through Malaya. For some time a pool of perhaps 250-300 aircraft had been gradually building up at Rabaul, a reserve pool and a Zero assembly plant at Kavieng. Wewak on New Guinea had been developed into an advance base, now that the Lae-Salamaua area of eastern New Guinea was so clearly dominated by Allied power...