Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruiser and two Jap cargo vessels, MacArthur's airmen reached far & wide for the Jap's shipping and air installations. The dingdong raiding across the wilds of New Guinea went on daily, with the Jap pounding at the U.S. airdromes at Port Moresby while American and Australian crews smashed the Jap's docks, sheds and ships at Salamaua...
Bombers from Australian bases raided Timor, to the northwest, bunged up a flying field, fought their way home untouched. U.S. four-motored bombers, piloted by Australians, flew 600 miles to the ex-Dutch naval base at Amboina, blasted shipping, knocked down three Zeros and came home one ship short...
Against the menace of the Allied air base at Port Moresby the enemy threw his greatest aerial attack yet, a raid by 26 bombers escorted by nine Zeros. The base went on operating. It had to. Bombers operating from there and the north Australian bases are doing something besides bombing the enemy. They are also watching him. By the time the Jap moves south again, their reconnaissance reports may turn out to be more important than all the damage they have done...
...they think they could handle 12,500 additional CKDs a month. The U.S. Army is not so sure. But the commercial methods of G.M., Ford and Chrysler have such obvious advantages that new equipment for assembly lines is being stuffed in the ample interstices of the Army's Australian loadings. When enough equipment gets there, even the Army's trucks will be shipped...
JAPAN: A WORLD PROBLEM-H. J. Timperley-John Day ($1.75). Chiang Kai-shek's Australian adviser traces the evidences of "paranoia nipponica" from early times to the China Incident...