Word: manus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a tough fight. It would be rugged until the last Jap was off Los Negros. But the main objectives had been captured. Momote airfield, swiftly taken, had been rehabilitated and U.S. fighter craft were operating from its strip in support of forward units. Jap shore batteries on nearby Manus Island had been silenced by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's navy and supply-burdened LSTs were unloading without enemy interference. One of the first Navy shipments: fresh beef to supplement the Army's K-rations...
Chief objective of the landing was Momote airfield, a base from which to strike at: 1) Rabaul (see p. 19); 2) Manus, the largest of the Admiralty group; 3) Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea, which the Japs are believed to be hopefully developing into a base that might be strong enough to guard their East Indies lifeline...
...same kind of warfare which unnerved U.S. troops on New Georgia last July. More Japs arrived from nearby Manus Island. Still the cavalrymen held...