Word: noumea
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...Duncan Norton-Taylor is in Noumea in the Southwest Pacific on assignment to the American Naval Task Forces which we hope will soon be making it too hot for the Japs in their island outposts...
...Pacific warfare which Vice Admiral John W. Greenslade calls "omnibian," air and sea bases are as important as numbers of planes and ships. In this respect Japan is in a far stronger position than the Allies. At sea, while the Allies improvise with external lines at such harbors as Noumea and Suva, the Japs have great forward bases at Rabaul, Surabaya, Singapore, intermediate bastions...
...announced granting Pan Am a new run across the Pacific: from San Francisco (via Los Angeles) 6,540 miles to Auckland, New Zealand, with stops at Honolulu, Canton Island and Noumea in New Caledonia. Pan Am began surveying the New Zealand run in 1935, in 1938 was ready to start mail and express service...
...pilot, weather-beaten Ed Musick, dumped gasoline for a forced landing, burned up his Samoan Clipper with all hands (no passengers were carried). To resume service Pan Am had to apply for a new certificate, in the meantime (last August) made another exploration run via Canton Island and Noumea with a new Boeing 314 flying boat...
...cargo), earmarked three for its transatlantic service, the rest for its Pacific venture. Because Kingman Reef and Pago Pago, Samoa, stops 2 and 3 on its original route, provided inadequate facilities for the huge Boeings, Pan American constructed new landing bases on Canton Island and Noumea, New Caledonia, otherwise held to the same route, which now goes San Francisco-Honolulu-Canton Island-Noumea-Auckland...