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...days after the assault on Peleliu Admiral Wilkinson made his second move. He gave Major General Paul J. Mueller's 81st ("Wildcat") Army Division its baptism of fire by sending it ashore on southernmost, phosphate-producing Angaur Island, six miles south of Peleliu. Initial resistance was lighter this time...
Washington speculated that MacArthur's next hop might be 700 miles to Halmahera on the Vogelkop (bird's head) that is New Guinea's western end. From Halma hera to Mindanao, southernmost Philippine island, is 400 miles...
...Bougainville by the U.S. Navy and Marines under Admiral William F. Halsey and Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift was a big step forward (see map). It represented an advance of 200 miles from the nearest big Allied establishment at Munda. It bypassed important Japanese positions at Buin on the southernmost tip of Bougainville, and in the Shortland Islands, 30 miles south of Buin. In those positions there were estimated to be at least 20,000 Japanese. But the real importances of the Bougainville blow were two: 1) it was a necessary preliminary to a necessity-the taking of Rabaul...
...early Italian surrender, the military benefits will be greater than has often been realized, and they must have been pondered by Winston Churchill and General Marshall when they visited North Africa. Sardinia and Corsica could not long hold out, might not even try to do so. From the southernmost tip of Italy, the Adriatic and the western entry to the Balkans would be open to Allied air domination. Allied air fleets could turn upon the rest of Italy, upon southern Germany, the Axis oil pool in Rumania, the entire southern belt of Axis defenses, with bombings as intense as those...
...reached. Biggest stumbling block to such an advance: the strong Axis fortress of Crete, where the Germans have two big air bases and other bases for E-boats and submarines. The Dodecanese are lightly manned; last week there were reports that the Italians were evacuating some of the southernmost islands and that Germans were moving in. The strongest of the group, the Italian-held island of Rhodes, has air bases to supplement those on Crete and could be a thorn in the Allies' side...