Word: auckland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photographic reconnaissance on the Northwest African front, the Air Medal was awarded to Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, who last December got the Distinguished Flying Cross. In Auckland, N.Z., on leave from command of a raider battalion in the South Pacific, older brother Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt was reported headed for the San Diego Naval Hospital with a light case of malaria...
...that if the Japanese succeed in snatching the threatened Indies and threatened Free French New Caledonia, they will be able to cover almost half the Indian Ocean and more than half of Australia. Furthermore, they will be able to punch at three more potential Allied naval headquarters, Colombo, Sydney, Auckland...
Pacific Clipper, inbound from Auckland, New Zealand. Captain Ford reporting, due to arrive Pan American Marine Terminal seven minutes...
...Pacific Clipper was outward bound from San Francisco, flying from New Caledonia to Auckland, when a coded message told them of the Japanese war. The skipper, Captain Robert Ford, signaled Auckland for "all clear"; then silenced the ship's transmitter, changed course and altitude, made new tracks for Auckland...
...Auckland Campbell Geddes. onetime anatomy professor and Ambassador to the U.S., now a Civil Defense Commissioner...