Word: buna
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...World War I, New York City's bouncy little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia was a ball of buna in the U.S. Air Service. From his base in Italy, he soared on bombing raids over the Alps, haggled with his superiors, smuggled steel out of Spain, cracked protocol like crockery...
...Pacific last week. For months only handfuls of Japanese raiders had stung Allied bases in New Guinea and the Solomons. Suddenly they swarmed out in force. Twenty-six bombers and eleven fighters struck at Wau, the airfield closest to Jap-held Salamaua. Forty raiders attacked Oro Bay south of Buna. Jap air strength, waning at the end of 1942, seemed to be surging back...
...Australia the people are agreed on the main thing they want after the war: a home of their own. They want a "fair and square go" for the workingman, liberty, jobs, and freedom of movement. Looking backwards on life in the dripping jungle of Buna, on days in the yellow kunai grass and slimy swamps, on Japs crouching in jungle-covered nests, on death in the rivers, in the trees, in the air, in Jap bunkers, a soldier could say, "That's all I want out of this -a home and a wife and kids and all the rest...
...special edition half the world away in Australia for the U.S. Army Post Exchanges there. Copies will also get through to the American outposts on the islands of the South Pacific, to be given away by the Army morale branch (Special Services) to the troops on Guadalcanal, at Buna-Gona, and on the fighting front before Lae and Salamaua. And more copies will be made available to the Navy for the Marines and for the sailors of the task force fleets...
Scouting Jap activities at Wewak, where a new enemy base is being built to compensate for the loss of Buna and Gona, the Wahoo had made a find. Anchored in a narrow inlet of Mushu Island was a Japanese destroyer. The Wahoo's first torpedoes, fired at long range, missed. The destroyer weighed anchor, bore down on the submarine. Once more the Wahoo launched a torpedo. This time the shot went home, blasted the destroyer in half...