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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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Australian troops engage in ongoing savage warfare against trapped but resilient Japanese forces on Bougainville Island in the Solomons and Sepik River swamps in British New Guinea, killing 12,000 in eight months amid air support from US, NZ, and Australian forces.
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Trapped Japs Put Up Savage Resistance in By-passed Zone
MANILA, July 25—On an almost forgotten battlefront far to the south of Okinawa and the Philippines, Australian troops are waging savage warfare against a Japanese enemy trapped, but surprisingly well fed and full of fight.
Men are still dying on dark, brooding Bougainville Island in the Solomons and in the untamed Sago swamps of the Sepik River in British New Guinea, just north of Australia.
The war has swept north, and the world waits impatiently for the invasion of Japan itself, but the by-passed Nipponese garrisons on Bougainville and New Guinea fight on. The Australians have killed 12,000 of them in the last eight months.
In the same period, United States Marine and New Zealand Dauntless divebombers and Corsair fighters, together with Australian Kittyhawks, Beaufighters and Liberators have flown 27,000 sorties against Japanese concentrations in the area.
An estimated 17,000 Japanese remain under wily Lt. Gen. Kanda, commanding the remnants of the Seventeenth Japanese Army. They still have heavy .155 artillery, four-inch defense guns and an abundance of 75 millimeter anti-aircraft dual-purpose guns that can be turned against tanks with devastating effect.
(An Australian Army broadcast heard today by the Federal Communications Commission, said Australian troops have invaded and "completely liberated Choiseul, by-passed Solomon Island, across narrow Bougainville Strait from Bougainville Island).
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Bougainville Island And New Guinea
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As Of July 25
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australians have killed 12,000 japanese in the last eight months; estimated 17,000 japanese remain; australian troops have invaded and completely liberated choiseul
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Australian troops wage savage warfare against trapped Japanese garrisons on Bougainville Island in the Solomons and in the Sago swamps of the Sepik River in British New Guinea. The Japanese, under Lt. Gen. Kanda commanding remnants of the Seventeenth Army, remain well-fed and fight on with heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns. US Marine, New Zealand, and Australian aircraft have flown 27,000 sorties against them in the same period.