Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australian who said this last week, not a U.S. guesser. It was a burly man-without-a-country, Hubertus J. van Mook, who had been Lieutenant Governor of the Dutch East Indies. He was in Melbourne, where Douglas MacArthur was training a joint force of Australians and Americans for come-what-might...
Were they groggy? U.S. and Australian bombers continued to destroy their shipping, planes and troops in the islands off northern Australia. Toward the mainland, the Japanese last week made no moves except sporadic, ineffectual air raids on the north coast...
...Rear Admiral Herbert F. Leary, in command at sea. Third in the top triumvirate was General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, commanding all ground forces. Blue-eyed, 58-year-old General Blarney had just returned from the Middle East, bringing with him a big part of the Australian Imperial Force which had fought in Greece, Crete and Libya...
...Aussies whom General Blarney brought home with him greatly reinforced the Australian and U.S. troops already strung from the south coast to bombarded Darwin. He must wait many months before enough U.S. troops and supplies can arrive to make Australia much more than a holding point against the Japanese. But General Blarney may soon have to hold Australia. Said he last week: "We are going to have a go for our lives. We are going to give the Japs a bloody stiff...
...years of training and they can fly anything. You see them all over Australia, in small, morose, green uniformed groups. Most of them left everything they loved in Java. They ask in anguish: "When do we get something to fly?" One day last week I had lunch with some Australian officers at an airdrome. All they talked about was the Flying Fortress full of Dutchmen who had landed that morning. Long after the Battle of Java, they had patched up a ship which Americans had been forced to abandon because of engine trouble, and managed...