ISLAND-HOPPING STRATEGY
AMERICAN COMMENT MONTREAL, Jan. 26. The Christian Science Monitor, in a leader, says: "On its face value the painfully slow Australian and American campaign in New Guinea has not supported General MacArthur’s declaration that the attack against Japan can be freed from the slow island-to-island process. The new use of airpower, however, suggests that in tlys island-hopping busines some islands could be skipped. “One could imagine Allied attacks, not against Munda, but against Java and the Philippines. This presupposes the holding of advanced airfields, but General MacArthur's ingenuity may do wonders. New airfields may be laid out in territories only loosely held by the Japanese, or old ones captured by parachute troops. We hope it will be possible to employ sufficient air and sea forces in the South Pacfflc in order to realise the possibilities which the imaginative use of air power suggests.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25135, 28 January 1943, Page 5
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