Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth portable is established on an abandoned battlefield which has not yet been cleaned up because rain and mud makes it impossible to burn the place over or carry anything away. Jap corpses still inhabit the pillboxes (which the Australian tanks crushed), and sometimes the rain washes them into view. Humorous, bird-like Surgeon John Lambert of the fifth portable had a dream the other night: he found a Japanese map showing the whole Buna area under water, and he remembers saying, "Gee, the Japs make much better maps than...
...action focused first on a drab sedan which lurched over the pocked and pitted track that winds from Jackson airdrome to Port Moresby. The thick red dust of New Guinea blurred its windows, but not the three white stars on its license plate. Spying the stars, half-naked troops, Australian and American, grinned and threw casual salutes. One of their favorite brass hats was home again: Lieut. General George Churchill Kenney, Commanding General of Allied Air Forces, Southwest Pacific Area, and commander, Fifth U.S. Air Force...
Fortresses haunted the convoy until after dark, when an Australian-manned Navy Catalina picked up the convoy's phosphorescent wake. Three bombs from the Catalina blew up a big (14,000-ton) transport which probably carried...
...protect it. Then George Kenney's airmen really started to work. Besides Fortresses, Liberators and Lightnings, George Kenney has samples of almost every type of combat plane the U.S. can produce: twin-engined Boston (A-20), Marauder (B26) and Mitchell (B25) bombers, Kittyhawk (P-40) fighters, plus some Australian Beaufighters and Beaufort bombers. The turbo-supercharged Lightnings can hit the Zeros high, and the heavily-armed Kittyhawks catch them when they come down...
...months organizing his air force, pepping up laggard flyers, briefing new ones, getting his fresh supply of planes ready for action. By Sept. 28 the Jap was at Ioribaiwa, only 32 miles from Port Moresby. MacArthur, his chief of staff Major General Richard K. Sutherland (a pilot himself), Australian General Blamey and Kenney fixed on a plan: to wrest control of the air, despite hell and high mountains, by blasting the Japs out of Buna and far-off Lae and Salamaua, the bases from which Buna was supplied...