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...Idea, a New Major. Australian Newsman Reg B. Leonard launched Guinea Gold in his spare time while covering the New Guinea campaign for the Melbourne Herald. It made such a hit with Allied troops that Australian General Thomas A. Blarney arranged for Correspondent Leonard's transfer to the Australian Army, gave him a major's rank and a full-time (15-hours...
...General Sir Thomas Blarney, Australian commander of Allied ground forces in the Southwest Pacific, gave point to Mac-Arthur's generalizations by remarking of the Japanese enemy: "He is now building up really big forces in this area. He has now 200,000 men and a proportionate number of airplanes. ... He is now attempting to obtain control of the air preparatory to taking the initiative." - Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, while acknowledging increased Japanese air activity, said: "You must remember that an attack on Australia must be accompanied by a tremendous sea force, and there is no indication...
...picnic. His Australians had had to build steps through the jungles to get cannon over the razorback Owen Stanley Mountains. The rest was not going to be a pushover, said Lieut. General George Kenney, the dynamic airman who shares MacArthur's bungalow, and squat Australian General Sir Thomas Blarney warned of possible hard fighting after Buna fell. General Kenney noted that the Japs still had planes they had not yet used, but Allied air superiority was such that a million pounds of food and ammunition had been dropped to MacArthur's fighters in the mountains and jungles...
...Blarney was a brilliant staff officer in France and at Gallipoli in World War I. He retired from the Army in 1925, and was planning a honeymoon (with his second wife) when World War II began. He immediately rejoined the Army, was soon in the Middle East...
...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...