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...Harlow mousetraps are a little different from anybody else's. Usually, the idea is to let a man through, then get him out of the way and presto, a hole. But since the trap is probably the most efficient way to get a man out of a play, Harlow used it to hold even more than to produce holes, for which he relies...
...their own jungles. The attack had a precise pattern. MacArthur, less than a year ago converted to air power, used it masterfully. His planes pinned down the Japs at the bases from which they might otherwise have launched counterblows. Airborne infantry and amphibious forces caught the Japs in one trap after another. Bombers and artillery, concentrating on the Japs' encircled positions, pulverized them before Allied troops moved in. The enemy scattered and fled or died. Up to this week some 6,300 Jap dead had been counted. Given a free hand by MacArthur, Lieut. General George Kenney turned...
...Trap. A German Mark-VI and four Mark-IV tanks suddenly appeared on the road. Atop a bare ridge, Sergeant Stanton Dobbins and his men got set with rifle grenades (see p. 68). When the tanks were 60 yards away Dobbins cried: "Let 'em have it." The first volley set one tank afire, knocked the treads off another. Other tanks came up, concentrated their fire on the slopes where the Americans lay. Some of the soldiers fled. Three more tanks were hit; the rest turned away...
Magnus: It may also be a trap in which England will perish...
...week's end MacArthur's troops seized the first prize of the coordinated campaign. Australian troops swam a jungle river to make a surprise assault and capture strategic Salamaua airfield. North of Lae, against the other jaw of the closing Allied trap, the enemy counterattacked weakly. Mr. Okuda's people appeared to be growing weary of the war in New Guinea...