Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAIRO--German tanks have run through a heavy Allied air and artillery barrage to reinforce Axis troops trapped against the Egyptian coast by Australian infantrymen, but all attempts to break out of the pocket have been beaten back, it was announced tonight...
...Japs, meanwhile, were whittling down U.S. strength. In the first days of the campaign they surprised and sank the U.S. cruisers Vincennes, Astoria and Quincy and the Australian cruiser Canberra (TIME, Oct. 26) in a night assault which will take many months of explaining. The Japs also jumped up and destroyed at least three of the little converted destroyers which were doing valiant service as Marine transports...
Among the scrub eucalyptus trees in a trim little Australian-American military cemetery outside Port Moresby, the New York Times's Byron Darnton was buried last week with full military honors. The Army said only that he was killed in an accident. He was 44 years old and the tenth U.S. correspondent to fall in line of duty in World...
...wrote the news of the last war have told me that GHQ (in France) placed a limousine at the disposal of each correspondent. . . . Here in the Port Moresby area we have two pick-up trucks and one sedan for about 20 Australian and American correspondents and photographers...
...Philadelphia Bulletin and Ledger, and the New York Post, to city editor of the A.P.'s New York Bureau. He was already a corking good newspaperman when he went to work for the Times in 1934, the kind of newspaperman that other newspapermen are proud of. Many an Australian, British and U.S. reporter said so last week to the Times. So did General MacArthur, who wired: "He served with gallantry and devotion at the front and fulfilled the important duties of war correspondent with distinction to himself and the New York Times and with value to his country...