Word: buka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beavers plowed on at 31 knots. They steamed through narrow passages of the Solomons so often and so fast that Burke had to be warned to slow down there: his ships were washing the Army's waterside privies away as fast as they could be built. They shelled Buka and Kavieng, ranged west to the Bismarcks and beyond toward Truk. There was no slackening of their speed, no change in the quality of their shooting...
...came at a time when the Jap was digging in everywhere, the Allies cautiously moving forward. U.S. warships, ignoring the threat from Jap-held Rabaul, less than 200 miles distant, steamed boldly off the northern tip of Bougainville, and for 45 minutes poured shells into Jap air bases on Buka Island. Reinforced U.S. troops fought grimly in the jungles of Bougainville, wrenching advances of several hundred yards in the Empress Augusta Bay area while engineers rushed construction of airstrips. Australian troops, using Matilda tanks smuggled in secretly at night, increased pressure against the Japanese in the Finschhaven sector...
These four Sisters of St. Joseph got back to their mother house at Orange Calif. last week after a long journey, via Guadalcanal. In 1940 they began nursing and teaching on Buka Island in the Solomons. Last year Jap air raids often forced them to take to the jungle...
...Thursday in the U.S.), when Ghormley's force had its first contact with the Japs, the Army was raiding Rabaul in New Britain, probably the Jap's strongest position east of Amboina. And up at the top of the Solomons they came in by night on Buka (see map), opening their bomb gates on airdromes and parked Jap planes. Meanwhile Ghormley moved...