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MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet was joined by the best part of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' Pacific Fleet, with carriers and battleships, for the crucial move on April 22: double landings at Hollandia and Aitape, both beyond Wewak-and beyond 50,000 Japs. The Aussies simultaneously captured Madang, completing the trap...
...pressure had been brought heavily to bear on the intermediate base of Wewak, apparently causing the Japs to concentrate there, in anticipation of invasion. Aitape and Hollandia were left in the hands of service troops, most of whom quickly retreated to the jungle-robed hills. That the Japs had not pulled out of Dutch New Guinea was evident in the supplies captured at Humboldt Bay. Somewhere between Aitape-Hollandia and Madang (which was taken last week by Australian troops) are the remnants of the Japanese Eighteenth Army, reported to be elements of six divisions and one brigade (about...
Landing. The surprise achieved by MacArthur was complete. The large force had feinted toward Palau, then reversed itself at night to steam southward into Hollandia. Other feints had been made toward Madang and Wewak, Jap-held bases in Australian New Guinea, where enemy forces had been concentrated, perhaps in expectation of the attack...
Some 450 San Antonians have been decorated. Among them are two who wear the Congressional Medal of Honor's white-starred blue ribbon: Colonel Neel Kearby, who shot down five Jap planes in an air battle near Wewak, New Guinea; Lieut. Colonel Charles W. Davis, who led an infantry assault on Guadalcanal...
...Test. Wake was a test of seaborne air power in island assault with ample forces. Wewak and Rabaul were tests of land-based air power with concentrated but still insufficient forces. Wryly and eloquently, a correspondent with MacArthur remarked that General Kenney's only reserves were "the planes that came back...