Word: caledonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maintenance of morale, the Red Cross has discovered it is the little things that count-the piano set up in an old auto showroom in Algiers, the county-fair smell of hamburgers rising amid the Oriental smells of New Delhi, the Wild West movies in the jungles of New Caledonia. Morale, too, means keeping in touch with home. Has the sergeant's baby been born? The Red Cross will find out. Did the Corporal forget his sister's birthday? The Red Cross will send a message...
...Army sent a seasoned veteran to carry on the fight: tall, lean, 53-year-old Major General Alexander McCarrell Patch Jr. Born into the Army (at Fort Huachucua, Ariz.) West Pointer Patch had long been in command in New Caledonia, where he learned jungle fighting and taught it to his troops...
...called to Washington last December, but before he publicly took command, the Pacific Fleet got its fundamental orders: "Hold the Hawaiian Islands area on the Midway line at all costs," and "Hold the communications line to the southwest Pacific on the Samoa-Fiji line and extend it to New Caledonia" (see map, p. 32). Said Admiral King last week...
...last reports Doolittle II was in New Caledonia. He may now be in the Solomons. Doolittle III (19-year-old John) is at West Point...
Last August he set off on a tour of Hawaii, Palmyra, the Fijis, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Solomons. When he returned, he wrote eight analytical reports. By last week, when the Times published the final installment, Hanson Baldwin's stature as a military reporter and critic had enormously increased...