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The New Pacific Front
Mitchell, Donald W. | December 25, 1943 issue

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The outstanding war news of the past few weeks concerns the developing American offensive in the Central and Southwest Pacific. Though they have been cautiously conducted in order to avoid heavy casualties, recent thrusts in these areas are the most important moves made by the U.S. in a year. The Central Pacific route to Japan has many advantages over island hopping in the southwest. It avoids the long circuitous approach through the Southern Hemisphere and it presents fewer natural obstacles. Operations are hindered neither by dense jungles of the South Pacific nor by weather troubles of Aleutians, Alaska.

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OFFENSIVE (Military science); WAR; ARMED Forces -- Operations other than war; OBSTACLES (Military science); FORESTS & forestry; WEATHER; OCEANIA; PACIFIC Ocean; UNITED States
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