At its full apex, Hollandia could accommodate 140,000 troops, short of the 200,000 that SWPA planners had hoped for but remarkable nonetheless. By August, Hollandia was handling the largest amount of cargo tonnage of any Allied base in New Guinea. “Where once I had seen only a few native villages and an expanse of primeval forest, a city of one hundred and forty thousand men took occupancy,” Eichelberger wrote proudly.
