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U.S. Navy bombers smash Japanese aircraft at Hollandia A long line of shattered Japanese planes testifies t the effectiveness of U.S. Navy bombers which attacked this airfield at Hollandia before and during the American landings at that northern New Guinea base in the Southwest Pacific. U.S. army troops, transported and aided by the planes and ships of a powerful U.S. task force, by-passsed the Japanese strongholds of Wewak and Madang in New Guinea, covering 500 miles, to strike at the enemy in the Hollandia area on Apruil 22, 1944. Three airfields were captured and all major resistance was erased in five days. American planes destroyed 101 Japanese aircraft -- 67 of them on the ground-- in the Hollandia operation. 27866- EN RESERVED BY LONDON OWI