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Along the Coast. The Allied team finally got the ball at the end of 1943, on Huon Peninsula-the equivalent of their own 15-yard line. What followed was the military equivalent of a series of seven forward passes, ending on Vogelkop (Bird's Head) Peninsula, 1,200 miles away -the enemy's goal line...
Between MacArthur and the western end of New Guinea were two Japanese armies at least 100,000 strong: the Eighteenth, under Lieut. General Nijusan Adachi, with headquarters at Madang; the Second, spread from Geelvink Bay to Vogelkop's beak at Sorong. But it was no part of MacArthur's strategy to meet any of these masses headon. His strategy was to fight only as much as was necessary to gain footholds behind them. Then he was behind them and they behind him. Whichever lost control of air and sea was then undone...
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...
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