sentences:  Escort fighters did not have the range to reach Wewak from existing Allied air bases, and the Allies considered large-scale, long-range raids by unescorted heavy bombers to be at risk of heavy losses.The Allied air commander in the South West Pacific Area, Major General George Kenney, devised a plan for a major attack on Wewak.Allied personnel started construction of two dummy airfields, relatively close to Japanese infantry positions on the Huon Peninsula, north of Lae.