Word: rabaul
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...control seemed cinched last week when 1) a horseless cavalry division made the key of the Admiralty Islands (Los Negros) theirs for keeps and 2) Marines jumped closer to Rabaul, the failing Jap stronghold on New Britain...
Marines. Across the sea some 300 miles, on New Guinea's northern shore, Brigadier General William Rupertus and his 1st Marine Division had been fighting their way in the direction of Rabaul. It was a slow pace. Last week they speeded it up, jumped overwater to a new objective: the airfield and town of Talasea on the Willaumez Peninsula, 170 miles from Rabaul...
...improvised with bombers. In April he and his Liberator crew spotted an enemy fleet gathering in Rabaul harbor, gave a warning that enabled the U.S. Navy to intercept and smash the Japs' task forces in the Battle of the Coral...
...last week Allied flyers reported that all Jap ships had left, that Jap planes were no longer in the area in any strength. Although the stranded Jap garrison would no doubt resist to the bloody end, Rabaul lay wide-open to an amphibious invasion...
...Mother," the cloud-shrouded tallest of Rabaul's volcanic peaks, and the lesser "Daughters" on either side, brooded somberly. Australian officials recalled the report which was made by vulcanologists more than three years ago after an inspection of Rabaul's treacherous strata: another eruption was likely to occur at any moment...