Word: caledonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long, Long Trail. In Asheville, N.C., Technical Sergeant Elmer Akau, who had fought on Guadalcanal and been hospitalized in New Caledonia, found himself "returned" to an Army redistribution center. Happy but baffled, he announced that he had never been so far from his Honolulu home...
Since 1942, United Airlines and North west Airlines crews had flown schedule runs to New Caledonia, Alaska, Australia...
Only a year ago the string of bases which formed the Navy's vital pipeline still ran far to the south, as far removed as possible from the Japs' reach. Supplies were piped to Nouméa in New Caledonia, base of the desperate drive to recover the Solomons. Extensions ran to Australia, base of the equally desperate drive to recover New Guinea...
...heartbreaking tour over the death-stinking decks of ships being raised from Pearl Harbor; and when he lunched with a group of nurses, "the least composed person at the table was I." He lost his Abercrombie & Fitch trench coat, the true war correspondent's caparison, in New Caledonia. He took a kind of tourist's gander at quiet Guadalcanal, rode around uneventfully on a destroyer, slept comfortably a few nights in a Noumea hut "between sheets that had covered some well-known newspapermen," and moved up with his wrangling colleagues of the press to watch the New Georgia...
Despite charges of immoral behavior among U.S. soldiers in New Caledonia made by one French official (TIME, Jan. 3), observers have seen little actual evidence of it. Army officials, anxious to avoid any incident with the island's French, moved fast in the case of the Negroes. One soldier was never identified. But the other two, Edward R. Loury and Frank Fisher Jr., were quickly court-martialed and sent to prison for life...