CONTROL OF GUADALCANAR
GIVES NEW AERIAL ADVANTAGE (Recd. 6.45 p.m.) New York. Feb. 16. "Complete control of Guadalcanal gives the United Nations a new aerial advantage,” writes Norman Lodge, ol the Associated Press of America, from United States headquarters in the South Pacific. He points out that Liberators, Fortresses and other heavy bombers based farther south are now able to reach Truk (Caroline Islands) and other central Pacific Japanese strongholds from Guadalcanal - . "It is,” he adds, "imperative that the United States should seize another island further north as a base for protecting fighters, as well as light bombers."
Admiral Halsey, he says, prefers to let tae enemy build a base and then move in a landing force to take control, as he did at Guadalcanar. The Japanese therefore were forced to split their defence force among all their bases in this area such as Munda, Russell Island, Bougainville and Rekata Bay.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 40, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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