Word: buna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muleback trip from Buna or Lae to the base hospital at Port Moresby. But Army hospital planes made it in 45 minutes, evacuated 17,000 men during the recent campaign. Since their organization last December,* the Air Forces' Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadrons have moved in New Guinea and Tunisia, or lugged to the U.S. from the Southwest Pacific, Alaska, Africa or India, or shuttled around the U.S. 50,000 ill and wounded men. Only two deaths have occurred in flight. Creator of the system: the A.A.F.'s air surgeon, Brigadier General David N. W. Grant...
...once he is aboard a plane, his priority is No. 1. In actual battle areas the planes used are the big Army transports, C-46s and C-47s. Sometimes the planes do hospital work both ways-U.S. transports took a 750-bed hospital from Port Moresby to Buna-but usually, on their trips toward the battle line, they carry fighting men and materiel, therefore cannot show the Red Cross...
...With their hold on New Guinea, consolidated last winter by MacArthur's victory at Buna-Gona (TIME, Jan. 4), the Allies had driven a wedge into the Japanese line facing northeastern Australia and gained a base for air operations against all supplies coming into this theater...
...become, not merely a people with an army, but a people in arms. The old place names still lingered in the American mind, but now there were new names to raise a challenge to the old, Attu was such a name, and Corregidor, and Guadalcanal, Midway and Buna. There were others and there would be more. They too would be long remembered...
...Only 735,000 tons of the program is the all-purpose Buna-S synthetic (the rest is specialty stuff like Du Font's oil-resistant Neoprene). Thus only 5,000,000 new civilian tires (plus 7,000,000 still stockpiled) are in sight this year, only 30,000,000 new tires next year to keep 25,000,000 U.S. automobiles rolling. That many, said Jeffers, is "a military necessity." Clearly the casual driver is still out in the cold and the essential driver must drive carefully and sparingly...