Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the battle opened. In the last four days of preparation, Axis airports and grounded planes were continuously bombed. Result: at the zero hour, the British and U.S. flyers believed that for the first time they had more planes in the air than the Germans had. British, South African, Australian and U.S. flyers worked in perfect coordination; the teamwork between ground and air forces had also improved since the British retreated into Egypt last summer...
...commanders at the steps of his headquarters-on-wheels. His sunburned face glistened with sweat in the moonlight. Said he: "We have one plan, one idea in mind. There is no army on one hand and air force on the other. We work as a unit." His Australian...
Montgomery had been incessantly touring his positions, forever popping up in a slouch hat which he had grabbed from the head of a startled Australian infantryman. He had demanded stiff training and stiff discipline from the troops just behind the lines, and he had personally directed every type of night attack, marched with new troops, fired every new gun and tried out every new tank as they arrived. His angular, inquisitive figure was by now familiar to all the units about to attack: the sist Highlanders, veterans of France, now about to get their first action against the Germans since...
...MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--Gen. MacArthur's air forces have knocked out 22 Japanese ships in the Solomon Islands area in the past week and his Australian troops are advancing with growing confidence in New Guinea, war dispatches said tonight...
...America's most brilliant collections of surgeons and physicians is gathered in a small, northern Australian town, ready to operate in what will be one of the largest hospitals, civil of Military, in the Southern Hemisphere. They are members of the famous Harvard unit, and each is a professor in his particular branch of medical science...