Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops. (see p. 19) Toward the east, along the line the Japs might follow toward New Zealand or eastern Australia, more bombs struck Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. Jap scouts hovered over Australia's northeastern tip and the islands of the Torres Strait. U.S. P-40s based at Darwin met attacking bombers and fighters, knocked several from the sky. Jap warships were reported here & there on the approaches to Australia, but either the reports were mistaken or the Japs were feinting, feeling for Allied naval weakness...
...long journey from Darwin to Melbourne is about as far as from Winnipeg to Miami. Aside from his air-sick family, General MacArthur had a good reason for making it by train and highway; this route from Australia's desolate northern deserts to the populous south was the most important, the most difficult military and supply route in his new command area...
General MacArthur traveled the narrow gauge, single-track railway which hooks bombarded Darwin to Birdum, 250 miles southward, in the heart of the continent's desert. Thence he had to drive 500 miles farther south on a new military highway, through lands so desolate that a U.S. pilot had said: "If I ever got forced down there, I would shoot myself...
Fourteen heavy Japanese bombers in two formations raided Port Darwin, northwest Australia, again Monday and there were increasing indications today that the Nipponese would attempt to occupy the entire Australian sub-continent...
Last week Japanese Zero fighters roared over the graves at Broome. Machine guns and aircraft cannon peppered the town and its airdrome, while 650 miles around the curve of the coast, at Wyndham, the Zeros struck again. At the oft-hit port of Darwin, they completed a pattern of things to come: Darwin, Wyndham, Broome are places to be invaded. With them in hand, the Japs would command Australia's northern coast, the wild interior desert which lies between the upper coast and southern Australia...