Word: biak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warrant Officer, 2nd Class, named Wright Windadge was in charge of a landing craft delivering jeeps to our troops on Biak. Just before making the landing an unaccountable swell shook the craft and the jeeps fell into the sea. When the troops ashore demanded to know where their transportation was, Windadge replied: "Many brave jeeps lie asleep in the deep...
Next day this Windadge was ordered to unload on Biak a cargo of C-rations. Again an unaccountable swell dumped the food into the sea. When the troops ashore demanded to know where their rations were, Windadge replied: "Full fathom five thy fodder lies...
...south, General Douglas Mac-Arthur's forces battled for two more Jap airfields on Biak Island off New Guinea; his planes flew from previously captured Jap fields to blast such strong points as Truk in the Caroline Islands. It appeared that this whole, forbidding 2,000-mile chain had now been definitely bypassed...
Comeback at Biak. Some 1400 miles south of Guam, General Douglas Mac- Arthur's last important island hop in his leapfrogging New Guinea campaign was progressing-but it was no walkover. Sixth Army infantrymen had been all but stalled in their drive along the coastal flats of Biak Island in the Schouten group, aimed at the capture of three airfields within heavy-bomber range of the Philippines. They had to fall back, call for reinforcements, amend their tactics. Last week they drove inland, outflanked the Japs, captured Mokmer airfield...
...flotillas of destroyers, sometimes with cruisers, down the Spice Islands into Geelvink Bay, between the Schoutens and New Guinea's mainland. Whether they were for reinforcement or for evacuation, Allied flyers could not tell. But they attacked them anyway, sank five destroyers, routed four sections of the express. Biak got no help...