Progress Report

Patient, persistent Allied campaigning in the Southwest Pacific theater paid off some results last week:

> Japanese resistance in eastern New Guinea collapsed like a made-in-Nagasaki celluloid doll as Australian and U.S. troops joined forces in the rugged jungle country 14 miles east of Saidor. The meeting gave the Allies complete control of the Huon Peninsula, completed the destruction of a Jap force of 14,000 men.

> By occupying tiny Rooke Island, abandoned by the Japs, U.S. troops established full control of the straits between New Guinea and New Britain.

> Pilots reported that systematic bombing has virtually neutralized Rabaul, once-formidable key base of the Jap defenses in the Bismarck Archipelago. All enemy warships have been withdrawn from Rabaul; merchant shipping is less than 50% of normal.

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