Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow retreat, the Japs withdrew their air reinforcements from the airfields at Wewak to the safer refuge of Hollandia, 600 miles from the New Guinea front. At week's end, under air cover and a heavy naval bombardment, seaborne Australian troops made an end run around both Salamaua and Lae, staged a large-scale amphibious landing above Lae to cut off both Jap bases from their overland supply...
...suppressed and delayed by the Navy and (to a lesser degree) the Army. (Examples: the details of the Tokyo bombing were suppressed for a full year; the news of the loss of four U.S. cruisers in the Savo Island battle was delayed two months, while the loss of an Australian cruiser in the same engagement was reported almost immediately...
...Munich days, when Winston Churchill was languishing in the political purgatory reserved for those whom the British consider erratic, he had one stanch and steadfast follower-Irish-born, Australian-educated Brendan Bracken, now Britain's able Minister of Information...
...positions, housing, feeding and protecting them meanwhile, until it has enough accumulated to launch an attack. In the Southwest area General MacArthur is circumscribed by the same lack of shipping. Australia is 7,500 miles from San Francisco. It is another 1,000-2,000 from Australian unloading points to the New Guinea battlefront...
...recent cigaret advertisement showed a well-groomed soldier resting comfortably in a tropical setting, under the slogan, "Light Up and Relax." This ad and others like it last week were soundly thwacked in an editorial in the Down Under (Australian area) edition of Yank, the Army weekly. Drawled Yank...