Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the bombers went out in force. It was the chance of a lifetime and they threw the works at the Jap-100,000 lbs. of bombs. Elsewhere it would have been a small show; in the Australian area it was tremendous. Marksmanship was still wretched. For the expenditure of all that destruction, only one transport was set afire. The Jap made his beach head...
...morning an Australian rancher swept 28,000 poisoned mice off his veranda. In a neighboring village 544 tons of mice were killed in five months. Hordes of field mice-as many as 80,000 per acre-once appeared in southern California, disappeared after devastating the countryside. In pre-Nazi Norway a steamer ploughed for a quarter of an hour through shoals of mouselike lemmings swimming out to sea via the Trondheim Fjord. In France great plagues of voles (short-tailed field mice) appear approximately every five years, then abruptly disappear. One of Germany's periodic infestations of mice...
Last month the U.S. Army let it be known that some of the military-secret-number of U.S.-Australian ground troops had been transferred to New Guinea. Among them were some American Negroes, mostly engineers, who build bridges, make roads, dig ditches. (A large proportion of all U.S. troops in Australia are service troops, e.g., quartermasters...
That was the only way that Private Edward Leonski, 24-year-old New York grocery-boy-draftee with the U.S. Signal Corps in Australia, knew how to defend himself. It was not enough to convince a medical board of two Army physicians and an Australian alienist. They declared that Leonski was sane and always had been. Last week an Army tribunal, sitting in Melbourne, sentenced him to be hanged...
...five months the Air Transport Service has flown 5,000,000 plane-miles, moving equipment and personnel to the Australian Front...