Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied convoy, including a battleship, cruisers, destroyers and 50 other small warships massed off Brunei Bay, began bombarding Labuan Island, guarding the bay's entrance. The landing which followed, said Tokyo, was made with "about a division of troops." From Canberra came confirmation that men of the Australian Ninth Division had gone ashore in British North Borneo. Brunei Bay offered the Allies a fine fleet anchorage...
...through four years of occupation, this postwar peace would be assured. How many people here would risk their life and that of their entire family for a perfect stranger from some foreign land? The people of France did. They did it for thousands upon thousands of American, British, Canadian, Australian, Polish, Norwegian, New Zealand and South African airmen and soldiers evading capture between 1940 and 1944. I know because I was one of them...
...orchestra was as colorful as the audience. Four American soldiers in khaki, an Australian lieutenant, a native boy and five young girls filled the chairs of some of the Society's 28 missing musicians who had been killed by the Japs or were still fighting as guerrillas in the mountains...
...Army, which hopes to cut G.I. military chores to a minimum, hopes to have its sport program going full blast in 30 days. If British, French, Polish, Dutch, Australian and New Zealand troops join in as expected, the program may lead to Allied championships that will dwarf the peacetime Olympic Games...
...Norman Myer, Melbourne department-store owner: a folding crutch which can be converted into a chair when its user wants to stop and rest. Mr. Myer bought the rights from the Australian inventor in order to present the device royalty-free to United Nations' war veterans...