“CORPORALS’ WAR”
BEING FOUGHT IN NEW GUINEA. JAPANESE OUTCLASSED. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, October 7. “1 think we have outclassed the Japanese in actual fighting as well as in strategy,” declared an Australian war correspondent who returned today by air from the New Guinea theatre. “The Japanese soldier is no longer fanatical, he is demoralised,” he added. “To our troops, it is a perfect tonic to see the Japanese running. “In great part, the war in New Guinear is a corporals’ war—a war not of brass hats, but of hard heads. The corporal and his men are the mainstay of our army today.” The correspondent said that the present operations provided a combination of all elements which were going to win New Guinea back for the Allies These were, firstly, the courage and resolution of the Australian soldier; secondly, the extraordinary technical qualities of the American engineer, whose skill had made possible the recent landings; and thirdly, the might of the combined Allied air forces which had pulverised objectives later occupied by our troops.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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