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...Still other bombers of the Fifth struck at the big Japanese air base at Hollandia in central New Guinea, 520 miles west of Lae...
...would like to second the nomination of Douglas MacArthur for Man of the Year. . . . He has done a magnificent job in the Southwest Pacific, and the careful planning and precise execution of the Salamaua-Lae-Finschhaven campaign give a hint of what he could do if he had larger forces at his disposal...
...first year Guinea Gold had five extras. The headlines: ALLIED FORCES TAKE TUNIS AND BIZERTE, ALLIED FORCES LAND IN SICILY, MUSSOLINI RESIGNS, ITALY SURRENDERS, AUSTRALIAN TROOPS CAPTURE LAE...
...Scheme. It was a vital goal of the counteroffensive which MacArthur began last June 30. Inch-by-inch land fighting had brought MacArthur's men laboriously to Lae, to Finschhaven in New Guinea, to Munda and Vella Lavella in the Solomons. Americans who toiled in the rain and heat to build airfields, Australians who fought to clear the enemy from Huon Gulf, made the aerial climax possible...
...Guinea. Finschhaven was the third Jap base on the Huon Gulf to succumb to General Douglas MacArthur's relentless drive. Salamaua had fallen in 75 days, Lae in twelve, Finschhaven in ten. The crack Australian 9th Division knocked out the Jap's last pillboxes with hand grenades and swarmed over their stronghold. Few Japs were taken prisoners. Some fled into the jungle with hard-bitten Diggers on their heels. The Japs fought fiercely but, according to the men of the 9th, not as formidably as the Germans. The 9th ("Morshead's Marines") should know. They helped crack...