AIR POWER AS KEY
DEFEAT OF JAPAN
MACARTHUR'S BELIEF
(By Telegraph—Pi ess Association—Copyright.) SYDNEY, January 25. Air power, with its "swift, massive strokes," is the key to victory in the Pacific, declared General Mac Arthur, Allied Commander-in-Chief in the South-west Pacific, in a statement today. He said that Papua had been an experiments! campaign, pointing the wa*y to Japan's final defeat. "Lieut.-General Horii's army has been annihilated," said General MacArthur. "The outstanding military lesson from this campaign is the importance of air superiority and cooperation with land forces. For months air transport with constant fighter coverage moved complete battalions of infantry and regiments of' artillery across the almost impenetrable mountains and jungles of Papua. It transported field hospitals and other' installations to the front. It supplied the troops and evacuated the casualties. For hundreds of miles bombers provided all-round reconnaissance,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 5
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