Word: anzacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...north the Anzac Corps of Australians and New Zealanders carried out a night landing just about six miles across thexinountains from the big Narrows forts. In the darkness tidal currents swept their boats a mile beyond their target beaches. But the Anzacs indomitably clawed up the cliffs, and "raising their absurd cry of 'Imshi yallah' [a phrase picked up in Cairo meaning 'Go away'], the Dominion soldiers fixed their bayonets and charged. Within a few minutes the enemy before them had dropped their rifles and fled...
...first Anzac scouts scaled Gallipoli's third ridge and looked down on the calm waters of the Narrows, only 3½ miles away. Mustapha Kemal Ataturk was then an obscure colonel commanding a reserve division at Boghali near the Narrows. Grasping instantly that the heights were the key to the Allied assault, Kemal threw his whole division into the attack, drove the Anzacs from the ridges and pinned them to the cliffs. That night the Anzac toehold seemed so precarious that the corps commander asked permission to pull out. In the best British tradition Sir Ian fired...
...Many an Anzac airman suspected that Squadron Leader Jimmy Duncan, special disciplinary officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, had X-ray eyes. "The Bull" could spot a loose tunic button, they swore, through three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege...
...Anzac airmen knew about Mohammed's uncle, who had the voice of 100 trumpets, and Paul Bunyan, who could kill a pond-ful of bullfrogs with a single shout. Big, barrel-chested, ramrod-stiff Jimmy Duncan came close to outshouting them both. The legend was that once when Jimmy told a lagging ground crew to "pick up those feet," the pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn...