Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign's casualty totals. The U.S. suffered 4,319 casualties (2,175 killed, 2,144 wounded); Australia 6,212 (2,379 killed, 3,833 wounded). The principal U.S. contribution was in the air, and the American casualties included perhaps 1,000 airmen. On the ground, the Australian loss was almost twice as great as that of the two U.S. divisions in the campaign...
Details of the rescue were withheld (Australian flyers apparently extricated them), but somewhere in New Guinea last week Brigadier General Ennis C. Whitehead, U.S. Fifth Air Force commander, gave Heroes Wallace, Hughes and Bordner Purple Heart medals...
Several months ago they met an Australian private, John Leslie Stokie, who was also hiding in the jungle. The four began building two dugout canoes in which they hoped to escape to New Guinea...
Annette Kellerman, shapely shocker of yesteryear, one-piece bathing-suit pioneer: now 55, trouping for the Australian Red Cross. From Sydney she wrote to show business' trade paper Variety: "I've been booked solid for three years on the V. S. Circuit [Voluntary Service-Red Cross theatrical unit]. We don't even get doughnuts ... [I am] writing my own show, words & music...
Tactics with Firecrackers. The rubber planters, civil servants and clerks of Malaya formed a sort of Home Guard and went out into the jungle, where few escaped death or capture. They flew ancient pleasure and training planes against Japanese Zeros. The regular battalions of British, Indian, Gurkha and Australian troops fought with tragic bravery. Weller's account of these men in action is also a brilliant story of Japanese fighting methods...