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U.S. troops pray on way to pacific battlefront heading for Japanese-held Noemfoor Island, off the north coast of Netherlands New Guinea, American troops aboard an LST (landing-shipt-tank), gather around their Chaplain to hear readings from the bible and join in prayer. Noemfoor Island was liberated from the Japanese occupation on July 6, 1944. Four days after the U.S. landings. Its airfields are within bombing distance of the Phillippine Islands. Allied forces are steadily drving the Japanesefrom their islands empire and threatening the enemy homeland.