Word: kavieng
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...looked last week as though the day was approaching when there would have to be one overall commander in the Pacific. Just as the Solomons and New Guinea operations had converged on Kavieng and Rabaul, so now the Central Pacific and the southern operations began to converge on the Carolines...
Having lost an astounding total of 793 planes at Rabaul since Dec. 17, the Japs apparently decided to lose no more there. Twice more during the week U.S. destroyers shelled Kavieng, which seems next on the list of untenables...
...Before the week ended, Kavieng (New Ireland) and once mighty Rabaul suffered the indignity of being shelled by destroyers' 5-in. guns...
...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...
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...