NEW GUINEA LANDING
ENEMY TAKEN BY SURPRISE. (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) SY’DNEY, Jan. 3. The place where Allied forces landed north of Einschhafen is Saidor. The landing was effected by a combined land, sea, and air operation in which elements of the American Sixth Army took part. Saidor is an important Japanese base midway between Einschhafen and the enemy’s main base at Madang. The seizure of Saidor represents an Allied advnnoe of about GO miles. “The harbour and airfields are in our firm grasp,” declared General MacArthur’s communique to-day. The enemy’s forces on the nortli const of the Huon Peninsula are trapped between the advancing Australians and the new invasion force and face almost inevitable disintegration and destruction. The landing was made under cover of heavy air and naval bombardment and was a complete strategic and tactical surprise to (be Japanese, and the communique sa.vs that the entire operation was accomplished without los-. This latest move by the South-West Pacific combined forces is a highly important development in the New Guinea campaign
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 29, 3 January 1944, Page 2
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