Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House grounds were a billowing of bright new snow under a lead-grey sky. In his office the President spoke to reporters amiably, but his face was tired. The important news, he declared, was the capture at last by U.S. and Australian forces of the Huon Peninsula in New Guinea. From Italy there was nothing new. It was a very tense situation, the President observed mildly. But we should realize that we still have control of the sea -subject to bombing attacks-and control of the air. On both accounts we are praying for good weather, he added...
...Japanese resistance in eastern New Guinea collapsed like a made-in-Nagasaki celluloid doll as Australian and U.S. troops joined forces in the rugged jungle country 14 miles east of Saidor. The meeting gave the Allies complete control of the Huon Peninsula, completed the destruction of a Jap force...
...looked nervously around her whole Pacific frontier. Simultaneously with the Marshalls attack bombers struck at Wake 750 miles to the north and on the edge of the Jap's mid-Pacific system. Navy bombers had struck twice at Paramushiro in the Kuril Islands. In New Guinea, U.S. and Australian troops were closing a trap around one Jap force while bombers at tacked the coastal base of Madang. U.S. troops on New Britain had widened their beachhead and Douglas MacArthur's planes steadily attacked the Admiralty Islands, through which Japan fed the axial base at Rabaul. From new bases...
...zealous, jealous guardianship that the American Red Cross exercises over U.S. soldiers abroad led to a feline exchange in Melbourne last week. Anxious to discourage "inadvisable" marriages between doughboys and Australian girls, the American Red Cross asked the Australian Red Cross to investigate the families and backgrounds of prospective brides. The Australians refused. They said that they were equally worried about the character of the prospective grooms. Before the ruffled fur could settle, an American Red Cross official from Philadelphia married an Australian girl from Yass, in New South Wales...
...made no attempt to sell their sports (though Britons futilely promoted rugby and cricket). When Army teams played exhibition baseball games, Allies yawned at first. The Americans kept playing. Soon even British troops were borrowing equipment. Now the Middle East softball league includes British, South African, Canadian, New Zealand, Australian and U.S. teams...