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...Guadalcanal, where most of the land battles have been defensive, the ratio has been higher. But on the offensive, better than two for one is an average expectancy. General MacArthur announced last week that Papuan losses had been "less than half" of Japanese losses...
This summary by General Douglas MacArthur of the successful Papuan campaign last week won the Army's only four-star field commander editorial plaudits as a new and forceful advocate of air power. But it made many an airman...
Their commander, Lieut. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, and eleven other U.S. and Australian officers were awarded the D.S.C. for "marked efficiency and precise execution of operations during the Papuan campaign." General Eichelberger, Far Eastern expert and onetime Superintendent of West Point, had last been heard of in October when he was upped to one of the Army's 20 lieutenant generals and sent on a secret assignment. His D.S.C. was the second he had won. The first had been pinned on his blouse in Siberia in 1919, not long before the Japanese Government awarded him the Imperial Order...
Last week was the most successful week of the war in the Southwest Pacific. With the Japs all but cleaned out of the Papuan sector of New Guinea, with the crushing of a Japanese attempt to land new reinforcements, General Douglas MacArthur left the screened veranda of his New Guinea cottage, where he had been since November, and returned to his headquarters in Australia...
...first act was to heap honors on his high command: Distinguished Service Crosses to twelve of his ranking officers (six Americans, six Australians). One of them, Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, was revealed as the U.S. field commander in the Papuan campaign. In an outpouring of long-kept secrets, General MacArthur also revealed the identity of his ground forces in the campaign: parts of the 6th and 7th Australian divisions, and of the American 41st (Oregon, Washington, Montana National Guard) and 32nd (from Wisconsin and Michigan...