Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year, and anyway the setting is all screwy." Which, of course, it is. It is a far cry from carol singers tramping through the snow to the lean, gaunt, green-garbed Americans squirming through drip ping man-high Kunai grass, or sniping Japs from the fronded tops of coconut palms, or flitting like phantoms from tree to tree in the weird firefly-spangled jungle...
...warrior had cause for happier reflections than he had had since World War II began: the culmination of his first successful offensive was in sight; the fall of Buna might come at any time. Buna is merely a coconut-fringed village of three houses and five huts. But with nearby Gona taken this week, Buna was the only Jap haven left in New Guinea east of the Lae-Salamaua area...
...Urgency. How could it be so important to battle for a three-by-eight-mile patch of meadow, jungle and coconut grove in an economically worthless island just across the way from nowhere...
With only a few rounds of ammunition left, Smitty headed home. As he skimmed over coconut palms he ran onto a hedgehopping Jap. "It wasn't even a fight...
Curious soldiers clustered on a New Guinea riverbank. As the late afternoon sunlight slanted through coconut-palm fronds, a raft drifted around the river bend. Small frizzled-haired Papuan natives guided it slowly to shore. Heedless of cries of "Don't bother, we'll get it for you" from the soldiers on the bank, four Australian soldiers aboard the raft slowly gathered up possessions that only a soldier can truly treasure-firearms, rain capes, a few battered odds & ends. As they turned their sunken eyes shoreward, the shouting and chatter of the spectators ceased. The crowd parted...