Word: amboina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese were preparing "a move of the utmost importance." All along the great arc of islands above Australia new concentrations had been sighted. Reconnaissance had spotted new airfields on Timor, 300 miles from Darwin. The increasing tempo of Allied raids directed at Timor and the naval base of Amboina was a measure of Australian nervousness...
...northeast coast of New Guinea by day and by night. On Friday, Aug. 7 (Thursday in the U.S.), when Ghormley's force had its first contact with the Japs, the Army was raiding Rabaul in New Britain, probably the Jap's strongest position east of Amboina. And up at the top of the Solomons they came in by night on Buka (see map), opening their bomb gates on airdromes and parked Jap planes. Meanwhile Ghormley moved...
Bombers from Australian bases raided Timor, to the northwest, bunged up a flying field, fought their way home untouched. U.S. four-motored bombers, piloted by Australians, flew 600 miles to the ex-Dutch naval base at Amboina, blasted shipping, knocked down three Zeros and came home one ship short...
...airmen, after a full share with the Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea, went back to work on the Jap's hideouts. They fired buildings and planes at Lae, hit heavily at Rabaul, ranged 700 miles north to the old Dutch naval, base at Amboina, where they fired docks and potted three small freighters. The Jap sent up swarms of Zeros to block them, found again that modern bombers with tail turrets are by no means basement bargains for fighter pilots...
...hard: U.S. sea attack, Dutch and U.S. air attack ravaged the Japs' warships and transports. But, if it had ever been early enough, it was now too late. The Japanese secured their bases in lower Borneo, in Sumatra on Java's western flank, in the Guineas, in Amboina and elsewhere in the east...