Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their newspapers Aussies read of the brighter side. A correspondent who got a look at the movies taken of the battle by the Army Air Forces reported that of 22 Jap ships knocked out by U.S. and Australian bombers, 18 were sunk, including two carriers, two cruisers, nine destroyers...
...tough. His fleet was badly shot up, largely by one of the greatest concentrations of air power ever sent against a naval force. The straw that broke his back was the unhappy accident of piling into the main U.S. naval force no more than 450 miles off the northeast Australian coast...
...been able to reduce by air raiding. But as he plowed south, it became clear that he was after a more important target. He was headed either for the northeast coast of Australia, or for the strategic prize of New Caledonia, 1,200 miles to the east on the Australian lifeline, where the U.S. had already landed...
...Australian area Allied planes continued their attacks on Japan's island "invasion" bases off the north Australian coast and damaged more Japanese shipping and planes...
Officials and merchants of these British and Australian islands fled in January when an enemy warship was reported near. The bishop stayed put. Soon a Jap seaplane swooped down to take possession and Bishop Wade, like Pope Leo I going out to meet Attila, stalked down the beach in his full pontifical robes to confront the startled aviators and demand respect for his Church and flock. Then the Japs flew away and Bishop Wade ran the islands unmolested until last month, when they came in force and put him in jail. They soon learned that they could not govern with...