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Playing in a mild drizzle that turned the field into a mud patch, the Harvard team was able to carry the ball over their opponents' goal line but once during the game, when Dunney Smith smashed through the ANZAC defense. John Loos' kick from the 25 yard line was successful, adding two points to the three scored by Smith a minute earlier...
...Anzac Tide...
...suit of silk underwear, which he wears. His outer clothes are informal: sweater and pants. To his troops he became a familiar and spectacular sight, touring the front line in a tank, his hawk's head in a beret protruding from the turret. Sometimes he wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through the sky in a Fieseler Storch reconnoitering plane left behind by the Germans. His headquarters was an elaborate caravan of trucks captured...
...grow up in pacifist isolation" is the nearest he came to putting it in words. "Neither Americans nor any other people pay the ultimate sacrifice by diving their planes into aircraft carriers unless they believe in something." Sherrod got to Australia in its darkest hour, when most of the Anzac troops were still 7,000 miles away fighting in the Middle East, when U.S. aid was hardly more than a promise and the Japs were expected to sweep south from Java at any minute. He left just when our first major attack of the war was being launched...
...Remember, we are the Anzac breed. Our men stormed Gallipoli. They swept through the Libyan Desert. They were the 'Rats of Tobruk.' . . . They were the men who fought under bitter, sarcastic, pugnacious [General Henry] Gordon Bennett down Malaya, and were still fighting when the surrender of Singapore came...