Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Owen Stanley for whom the Pacific's wildest mountains are named was a captain of the Royal Navy who, in H.M.S. Rattlesnake, a frigate, surveyed Torres Straits, the channel between the Great Barrier Reef and the Australian mainland and the southeast coasts of New Guinea and the Louisiades...
Beside his bungalow, in a tropical garden riotous with frangipani, hibiscus and flame trees, sat Douglas MacArthur. In one hand he held messages from the New Guinea front, in the other a quarter-head of green lettuce flown into New Guinea from the Australian mainland. As he read he munched, as he munched he reflected...
GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia -- (Late Bulletin) Australian troops have entered Gona, a communique said tonight. Allied forces also occupied Cape Endaiadere, south of Buna. The heaviest fighting of the entire New Guinea campaign was reported raging in the narrow coastal strip where the Japs are pinned with their backs to the sea between Buna and the Gona mission, 15 miles up the coast...
...Land. Meanwhile Australian troops, battle-toughened in Libya and the Middle East, were rushed to New Guinea and hastened up the trail to stop the Japs. Over the jungle and mountain trail that leads out of Moresby they slogged through mud a foot deep, through rain that never ceased. The Japs, weakened by dysentery and undernourishment, withdrew as fast as they had advanced. The Australians pushed on toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range. They started down the slope toward Buna, where the Japs landed last July. Last week they took Kokoda, a thatched native village...
...first time since they landed there last February, it seemed that the Japs might have to look to the defense of their bases, Lae and Salamaua, 150-odd miles northwest of Buna. If MacArthur could take Lae and Salamaua, New Guinea would be lost to the Japs. Already Australian Commandos were harassing the two bases, working in the dead of night with their knives and tommy guns...