Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower reaches of the southwest Pacific, where he had been successful beyond belief, the Jap still had a lot of unfinished business on his books. Until Douglas MacArthur and his Australian and Dutch allies were richer in the specie of war, they would have to be content with joggling the Jap's elbow and spilling ink over the accounts on the most profitable page of his ledger...
...Australian Airman Harold Gatty, navigator of the Winnie Mae on its record-breaking round-the-world flight with the late Wiley Post in 1931, was given a new job in Melbourne: Director of Air Transport with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Gatty was also made an honorary group captain...
...very satisfactory beginning," said Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs...
...week. They took it over and off northern Australia: at Kupang in Timor; at Salamaua and Lae in New Guinea, where U.S. and Aussie bombs scrambled scores of Jap planes on the ground; at Darwin, where four, possibly six, Jap bombers fell in one raid. More & more U.S. and Australian planes met fewer & fewer Japanese planes. Still more U.S. fighters, pilots and ground crews were arriving; more bombers were completing the long air-ferry leap across the Pacific...
...Australia griped at the title. They have already had fist fights with Aussies who insist on calling them Yanks. Most of those who got into scraps were Southerners, but other U.S. troops down under don't like the gritty name any better. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed, some Australian commanders have ordered their troops to lay off "Yank...