Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years before the war, Rabaul (pop. 8,000) dozed comfortably in the Pacific sun, its chief activities coconut culture and administration of the Australian-mandated Territory of New Guinea. Planters' bungalows stood among green lawns and lush gardens. Tree-shaded avenues curved past government buildings, warehouses, hotels, churches, the New South Wales Bank, the racecourse...
...definitely sunk. > Against "negligible" resistance Admiral William F. Halsey's amphibious troops took the Green (Nissan) Islands between Bougainville and New Ireland, cut off an estimated 22,000 Japs in the Northern Solomons, ended the Solomons campaign. > Rabaul declined further as an effective Jap base as U.S. and Australian flyers sank twelve ships...
...days after Pearl Harbor, Hudson bombers manned by Australian crews had lumbered through the cottony skies to take photographs of the Truk Islands. But not until three weeks ago did Allied cameramen call again. U.S. Marines, flying two Liberators over 2,000 miles of enemy ocean, swooped in, snapped pictures...
...bombing mission was long and risky: a 2,100-mile flight to hit the Jap-held nickel port of Pombelaa on Buton Island. Eleven men rode to battle in the big 6-24 Liberator bomber "Golden Gator," but only four lived to see their North Australian base again. Navigator Lieut. Robert Jones had tears in his eyes as he told Chicago Tribune Correspondent...
...four survivors managed to get two life rafts inflated, then collapsed, unable to move or help each other. On the second day searching bombers sighted them; that evening an Australian Catalina patrol flying boat rescued them...