Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green-clad Australian troops swept on to the Gap atop New Guinea's Owen Stanley Mountain Range, neared Kokoda, which had been occupied by the Japs in August. But Lieut. General Sydney Fairbairn Rowell's crack Imperial troops had not yet found the main Jap forces which were supposed to be threatening Port Moresby. U.S. pilots strafed and bombed villages further along which the enemy had been known to occupy. General Rowell ordered up supplies, guns, ammunition, more troops, prepared to strengthen his positions along one of the world's wildest jungle-&-mountain trails, just in case...
...that Japanese troops had occupied some more of these islands. There was no one to dispute the claim. The Japanese had been inching into outposts of The Netherlands East Indies ever since they seized Timor last February. They have been unmolested except for occasional bombing raids, usually by outmoded Australian Lockheed Hudsons. Last week's inch put them within 300 miles of Darwin...
...Australians at least had launched a little offensive-if retaking, against no opposition, a few miles of recently lost backyard could be dignified by that term. By last fortnight, when some Japs pushed southward across the precipitous Owen Stanley Mountain Range, the Japanese were only 32 miles from vital Port Moresby. Some uneasy observers began to believe the unpredictable Japs might try to take well-defended Port Moresby by land, using only the troops and supplies that could be hauled along the "impassable" one-man jungle-&-mountain path. It would be an audacious gesture, but Australian troops had already...
Wearing khaki uniforms dyed green, newly arrived crack Australian Imperial troops (including the famed "rats" who holed in for eight months at Tobruk) launched their little offensive last week. At mountain peak No. 3 (of the six between Port Moresby and the gap at the top of the range) they seeped through and outflanked the foremost Jap positions. But the Japs, softened by strafing and bombing raids, had already withdrawn...
...lean, wiry A.P. reporter had been revived at Port Moresby hospital by special food and drugs flown in from the Australian mainland. He was still too weak to talk about his record trek after bailing out of a U.S. Army bomber, but his diary talked for him with terse eloquence. Some entries...