Jap planes and ground forces are making frantic but hopeless efforts to halt American troops who landed on Saturday on Biak Island, the last important enemy stronghold on the far-west coast of Dutch New Guinea. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tue 30 May 1944, Page 1
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