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Concentration at the Apex. The magnificent harbor of Rabaul lies at the apex of a triangle, the base of which is held by the Allies. Rabaul is 480 miles from Port Moresby. It is 700 miles from Guadalcanal. It is the logical takeoff point for attack on either...
Last week many sources reported that the Japanese were gathering in Rabaul a force even greater than the armada which in mid-November failed to retake Guadalcanal. The only dissident voice in the Allied chorus warning about the concentration was that of Navy Secretary Frank Knox, who said: "To my knowledge there is no such concentration." An anonymous Navy spokesman next day went out of his way to correct the Secretary by saying that both the Allies and the enemy are throwing great weight into the area and that increased activity may be expected any day. The concentration, it appeared...
...Georgia group of islands (see map, p. 28) appeared last week to be the Japs' newest hope as a spot from which either to reinforce Guadalcanal or to delay an eventual U.S. attack on Rabaul. For either purpose, the group is ideally suited -a halfway station between Bougainville and Guadalcanal...
...Christmas Day Boeing Flying Fortresses made their first 1,120-mile round-trip flight from Guadalcanal to the Jap base at Rabaul. They hit one large ship, damaged three smaller ones. On the day after Christmas 26% of Boeing Airplane Co.'s employes-who had had Christmas Day off-never showed...
Slowly victory neared at Buna, but the nature of victory was as ominous as it was painfully slow. More important Japanese bases still were at Lae and Salamaua, about 150 miles farther north in New Guinea. And Lae and Salamaua, in turn, were outposts of Rabaul. Behind Rabaul were scores of Jap island bases. Buna was teaching how long and bitter would be the road to final victory in the South Pacific islands...