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...newly married couple left Honolulu last week for a year's honeymoon. Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. R. Hill, who are naturalists as well as newlyweds, were going to lonely Koror Island in the Palau Archipelago. There their main job will be to turn a Japanese weather station into the first of the Pacific War Memorial's chain of scientific centers. The Hills will also set up a tide gauge for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. (Incidentally, they will take care of a colony of wasps from Zanzibar which, it is hoped, will check a plague of coconut-eating...
...operation expensive in human lives, which are highly regarded in the U.S. if not in Japan. Wherever possible, U.S. strategy has been to by-pass Jap defenses. From air bases on Angaur, Peleliu and Ngesebus, the U.S. can now neutralize not only the 25,000 Japs on Babelthuap, Koror and the other northern Palaus, but also an estimated 100,000 others on once-mighty Truk, Ponape and other Caroline islands...
...capture of Peleliu and Angaur alone will not secure the anchorage. That is situated off the northern Palaus: 25-mile-long Babelthuap and Koror (where the capital is located). But, said Admiral Nimitz: "We will have a base from which to cover and support General MacArthur's Philippine campaign...
What U.S. pilots saw as they glided in over Palau was a huge, reef-encircled lagoon, splotched with hilly green islands near the eastern rim. Sprawling over a round island near the main entrance to the lagoon was the sizable town of Koror, mostly composed of laborers' barracks. The U.S. airmen saw the results of Jap labor-two or three islands razed level for fighter and bomber strips, cement jetties from which roads curled back into the jungle to camouflaged fuel and ammunition dumps...