Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, delay fuses-to make the bomb detonate below the waterline-were improvised with the help of the Royal Australian Air Force. They have now been replaced by the real thing. Meanwhile Bill Benn had explained his technique to his superiors, had beamed from large, humorous hazel eyes when he was told he had better lead the first raids himself...
...units in the joint U.S.-Australian force under General Douglas MacArthur were the 32nd (Iron Jaw or Red Arrow) and 41st (Sunset) divisions, and the Fifth Air Force. General MacArthur cited them for skill and courage that "defeated a bold and aggressive enemy...
Their commander, Lieut. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, and eleven other U.S. and Australian officers were awarded the D.S.C. for "marked efficiency and precise execution of operations during the Papuan campaign." General Eichelberger, Far Eastern expert and onetime Superintendent of West Point, had last been heard of in October when he was upped to one of the Army's 20 lieutenant generals and sent on a secret assignment. His D.S.C. was the second he had won. The first had been pinned on his blouse in Siberia in 1919, not long before the Japanese Government awarded him the Imperial Order...
...first act was to heap honors on his high command: Distinguished Service Crosses to twelve of his ranking officers (six Americans, six Australians). One of them, Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, was revealed as the U.S. field commander in the Papuan campaign. In an outpouring of long-kept secrets, General MacArthur also revealed the identity of his ground forces in the campaign: parts of the 6th and 7th Australian divisions, and of the American 41st (Oregon, Washington, Montana National Guard) and 32nd (from Wisconsin and Michigan...
Said General MacArthur: "The magnificent conduct of the troops and elements of this command, operating under difficulties rarely if ever surpassed in a campaign, has earned my highest praise and commendation. . . . To the American Fifth Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force no commendation could be too great. . . . They have set new horizons for the air conduct...