Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came the surprise. The extent of military installations and the strength of the Australian holding force in Milne Bay had been a closely guarded military secret. It was a secret no longer. From their ambush, Australian combat forces under veteran Major General Cyril Clowes fell on the invaders, drove them from the narrow shore into the waist-deep mud of the mangrove swamps. Allied planes blasted them. The Japanese sent a rescue fleet of eight destroyers and a cruiser to evacuate the remnants of their forces. Lost were all their tanks and heavy equipment...
...soldiers soon discovered who Mr. Bullfinch was. "Blimey, it's Winnie," they said. "Winnie's come out into the bloomin' desert." "Hey, Winnie," shouted Private Stanley Collins, an Australian, "Have you got a spare cigar?" Winnie handed over a fragrant Hoyo de Monterrey...
With General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and Lieut. General Sir Allan Moreshead, Australian Commander, Churchill saw the white of El Alamein sand dunes against the turquoise blue of the Mediterranean. Bronzed South Africans, stripped to the waist, were laying mines. One South African said he came from Pretoria. "I was there," said Churchill, "before you were born." (As a captured war correspondent of the London Morning Post in the Boer...
North from Tulagi lie Jap bases which the U.S. and Australian forces will need soon to clean out: all the airdromes, troop centers and anchorages in the upper Solomons, within easy range of the Marines' southern toehold. The job even then would not be finished. For the Japs' great concentration point at Rabaul in New Britain would still be dangerously close-660 miles from Tulagi, 200 from Bougainville. The Japs would even then still be in upper New Guinea, a scant 350 miles from Rabaul. Above Port Moresby last week, an Australian force (with some U.S. troops...
...accuracy and fairness. I dissent. In TIME'S report [July 27] on the Leonski case you represent that "To wheedle a picture for the News . . . Reporter Al Willard told Mrs. Leonski that her son had just been cited for bravery." [Actually he had been arrested for strangling three Australian women...