Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Eichelberger and his staff of the I Corps* arrived in Australia to report to MacArthur, Australian troops were still being pushed south across the Owen Stanley Mountains. Little more than three months later, when I Corps staff got the call, the counteroffensive had begun, but the U.S. 32nd Infantry Division was stalled before Buna and something had to be done. Eichelberger's orders from MacArthur were: get them out of the mud and get them moving. One of Eichelberger's first acts was to relieve the commander, Major General Edwin F. Harding, a friend and West Point...
...these, only Okinawa, Truk and Manus are suitable for important naval usage. The Jap base at Truk, perhaps the Pacific's best landlocked anchorage, would presumably be acquired by what Truman called "arrangements consistent with the United Nations Charter." Postwar rights to Manus, an Australian mandate in the Admiralties which the Seabees built into a major fleet repair station, would be subject to negotiation, would undoubtedly entail reciprocal rights to one or more U.S. bases...
...Under the caption "Battle of the Pacific" in TIME [May 14] you printed: "In preparation the Australian First Tactical Air Force had flown the 1,400-mile round trip from Morotai to bomb Tarakan heavily. U.S. bombers of the Thirteenth Air Force added their...
...Dday, April 30, 1945, the assault waves were composed of Australian infantry. The Thirteenth Air Force mediums, heavies and fighters had been assigned the air combat duty. No other air force-R.A.A.F. or American-was included in the Battle Order...
...years since he left the engine cab for politics, Chifley has not lost his capacity for hard work or his liking for the dark suits all Australian engine drivers seem to wear off duty. As wartime Treasurer, he and his wife set Australians an example in austerity by living on $8 a week. A bone-&-marrow union man, he regards capitalists as "ordinary blokes" who will embrace socialism of their own free will. With Chif at the political throttle, the Commonwealth looked set for another long haul on the leftist limited...