Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 20, DeMotte, Jasper County, 31 March 1944 — What Capture of Admiralty Islands Means [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

What Capture of Admiralty Islands Means

The capture of Momote airdrome on Los Negros island in the Admiralty group by U. S. troops places the Allied forces in a strategic position to strike at the, enemy in many of his Southwest Pacific strongholds. Planes and carrier task forces can make raids from the new base. Arrows show distances these units would have to travel to Palau, Truk, Guam and Philippines. Jap forces at Rabaul, Kavieng and in New Guinea (black area) are flanked.