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Garmin mobile xt install on mio c3209/5/2023 ![]() The LST was deadly quiet as we approached shore in the dim pre-dawn light. There was no preliminary bombardment because supposedly there was only empty jungle. July 30 at the crack of dawn we landed at Cape Sansapor. ![]() Initial unopposed landings were on Middleburg and Amsterdam on July 29. The air strips at Sansapor and Middleburg Island not only helped isolate the enemy at Manokwari where the Japs would die of starvation and disease but these strips provided air cover for the next advance to Morotai, one of the Halmahera islands. This advance bypassed 25000 Japs at Manokwari on the Vogelkop Peninsula. MacArthur, adhering to the principle of avoiding massed enemy concentrations where feasible, advanced to Cape Sansapor and Middleburg and Amsterdam islands 200 miles to the west of Biak and Noemfoor islands which had been subdued by July 22.
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