Word: australians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balikpapan. In the Southwest Pacific, 6-245 flew the distance from Boston to Kansas City (1,300 mi.) and back in a blow against a Jap equivalent of Ploesti-the oil depot of Balikpapan in Borneo. They destroyed at least seven oil reservoirs. All the raiders returned to their Australian bases...
...Australian and American artillery set the broad-leafed jungles aquiver last week as they roared an unexpected challenge to the Japs in Salamaua. Somehow through the jungles Allied 105s and other artillery had miraculously been lugged into position. With the aid of the guns Allied troops began storming the gates of the Japanese stronghold. Having chopped and shot their way through jungle to within five miles of it, they now needed artillery to battle for high ground...
...orders. This large demand sent U.S. wool prices up 33% from 1939 before ceilings were clamped on. Now the woolen mills, trapped in a price squeeze between OPA ceilings on finished goods for consumers, and high domestic wool prices, will use more of the enormous stocks of lower-cost Australian raw wool that cram U.S. warehouses...
...naval base he had torn from the Dutch. Out of the dawn swept a formation of Liberator bombers, their exhausts glowing red. For 70 minutes they "buzzed" the city, bombing warehouses, railroads, docks. Most important target was the big oil refinery. As the bombers winged homeward to their Australian base, flames from the refinery could be seen for 140 miles. It was the longest raid of the Pacific war-2,400 miles round trip...
...married Eunice McIntyre, whom he had met during his Australian prospecting days. They built a modern palace on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, bought show places at Bar Harbor and Palm Beach, a house in London and a shooting box in Sussex. There were five children. Their 18-year-old daughter Nancy eloped last year with Alfred de Marigny, a slick weekend guest. Sir Harry did not approve...