Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must die and intends to take as many of the Allies with him as he can. The Americans want to take their positions with a minimum number of casualties, not from fear but because of a desire to finish the job with a strong force still in hand. The Australians want to get the job over. The majority of Australian objectives have been gained with bayonet charges. Both methods are achieving their purpose, and the slow grip of strangulation tightens round Japan's last Papuan garrison. It is a tougher fight than anyone expected, and it is a longer...
Until a few months ago the U.S. and Australian troops in New Guinea were treated at long intervals to grey-bearded hits like Broadway Bill. Now they get some new films (their favorites are musicals, especially the Crosby-Hope-Lamour circuses). The man who brought the movies to the jungle is New Guinea's Red Cross Field Director, Jimmy Stewart (not to be confused with Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart, now a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps...
Later Jimmy demanded and got more modern equipment and pictures through Australia. Grateful Australian airmen built him a hut, rebuilt it when a 500-lb. bomb took it apart (Jimmy was staying, at the moment, in a nearby slit trench named Pooh-Bah Palace). Australians and Americans have also built a chain of eight theaters which extend from Port Moresby to Milne Bay and deep into the jungle. The seats are smoothed logs nailed to stumps. The theater's acoustic walls are the jungle, which adds its own soundeffects and out of which appear like moths...
...engagement took place, not in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, but west of Australia, probably in the tropical Indian Ocean, where one of the small Allied units under command of General MacArthur caught a ship described only as an "8,000-ton auxiliary." The Allied guns-probably Australian, perhaps American-opened up, scored a hit. Then the Nazis scuttled the ship. But 78 of them were captured. It was the first time General MacArthur had captured any Germans since...
...also probably more prisoners than MacArthur's forces had captured in the entire campaign to blast the Japs out of New Guinea. There last week General MacArthur's Australian and American ground forces moved forward toward the Buna beachhead, yard by yard: the Australians killed 150 Japs in charging one gun position, lost 66 of their own men. The Japanese defenders held an area of only four by ten miles, occupying a position roughly corresponding to that of the U.S. Marines during the worst of Guadalcanal. From concrete strongholds and jungle-covered machine-gun nests the Japs fought...