Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the Australian soldier: "It is all very well to say the Japanese in the Solomons and New Guinea are withering on the vine, but they take a bloody lot of withering." Many a "Digger" will swear that the fanatical, agricultural, fecund Jap, cultivating vegetable gardens in inaccessible jungle clearings, not only is waxing fat and happy but is intermarrying with natives to raise a new race of Bushido boys...
...last week it appeared that the battle-tried A.I.F. (Australian Imperial Force) was going to have time to go after such battle-stranded Japs. Having been shipped home in 1942 from the Middle East, the A.I.F. had been routed to the New Guinea jungles. When MacArthur went to the Philippines three weeks ago, they were left behind, some in New Guinea and many more in Australia where there were furloughs...
...slept well, eaten a hearty breakfast. Now with his corncob pipe he pointed over the glassy, green waters of Leyte (rhymes with 8-A) Gulf, where rode the greatest fleet ever assembled in the South west Pacific. Around him were hundreds of transports, shepherded by an Australian squadron and MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet, reinforced with jeep carriers from Admiral Chester Nimitz' vast armada of seagoing airdromes. On the horizon loomed the majestic battleships of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet - some of them ghosts from the graveyard of Pearl Harbor. Beyond the horizon steamed...
This single-mindedness, until he became a success again, made him enemies. The Navy gave him a U.S. fleet (the Seventh) and the Australian Squadron. Once he spoke unguardedly of ''my Navy" and the proud Navy found it hard to forgive him. There was a time, especially while the MacArthur-for-President boom was being drummed up in the States, when the name of Douglas MacArthur was not always cheered in Navy wardrooms...
Said one correspondent: "It's beginning to look like a publicity junket for the opening of a supercolossal movie." On hand to cover the Philippine invasion (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), along with assorted writers for OWI, Yank, the Red Cross and the British and Australian press, were no less than 45 U.S. newspaper and magazine correspondents-a Pacific war record.* And more were...