Word: kavieng
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...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...
...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...
...Kavieng in New Ireland, 530 miles northeast of Port Moresby, New Guinea, a large naval and merchant fleet was assembled...
...attacks on Oro Bay and Guadalcanal the Japs lost 31 planes. Liberators and Flying Fortresses of MacArthur's command, in three assaults on Kavieng, sank two Jap cruisers and a destroyer, damaged other warships and merchantmen...