Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacARTHURS'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--The Allies' first big New Guinea offensive has removed immediate threat of Japanses attack upon Port Moresby, last major base north of Australia, observers believed today, and only supply difficulties have slowed it down after 10 days of steady progress. Australian ground forces have reached the peak areas of the Owen Stanley Mountains near the gap leading across trails to the advanced Japanese base at Kokoda...
...MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA--Australian troops, pushing northward through New Guinea without Japanese opposition, Shave penetrated the 6,170-foot high Owen Stanley mountain gap to the point where it drops downhill toward the Japanese base at Kokoda, front dispatches said tonight...
...Haugland flipped a coin with an Australian correspondent for a seat on an outgoing U.S. Army bomber. The A.P. man won. The plane used up its gasoline bucking a tropical storm; Haugland and the crew bailed out at 13,000 feet. Eight days later two of the crew reached Port Moresby. Within 20 days all but Haugland and the navigator had straggled...
...Guinea unfolded like an old newsreel of the disastrous Malay and Burma campaigns. With their faces painted green and in green uniforms, Japanese troops moved over the "impenetrable" Owen Stanley mountains. In the great equatorial-rain forests' "battle of lungs" the Japs had the advantage against Australian troops (accustomed to a dry desert climate). Wearily the Australians and some U.S. service troops (engineers, etc.) prepared for a last-ditch stand. The fighting was so fierce that "no prisoners have been taken yet." Australians said the Japs killed their own wounded, played "possum" among dead soldiers and rose...
Home-guard guerrillas were organized in Australia as the Japs, advancing in New Guinea, advanced also toward the Australian mainland. Everybody in Australia knew that MacArthur's planes were too few, their crews overworked; that Australia invaded would be in dire straits. In New Zealand, Prime Minister Peter Eraser, just home from the U.S., broadcast: "We shall have to steel ourselves for the next twelve months. . . . It's not enough simply to hold the enemy. The United Nations must advance...