Word: darwinism
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...Roosevelt got a firsthand account of warfare in the Pacific from his young, trusted friend, Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas. Tall Lyndon Johnson, a Navy lieutenant commander, had sought active duty one hour after voting for war against Japan. He had ranged as far as Perth, Melbourne, Sidney, Darwin and Port Moresby. Now he returned to Washington 28 Ib. lighter (from a pneumonia attack) but much wiser in the ways...
Since the Battle of the Coral Sea the Japs had done little but raid Darwin and Port Moresby inconclusively. To these attacks, bombers under General MacArthur's command had replied with raids on Jap bases in New Britain, New Guinea, Timor and one 800-mile thrust at Celebes. But, by the standards of global war, this was relative quiet along a South Pacific front which three months ago seemed destined for more of the war's hottest fighting...
...pure cussedness none of them had ever seen anything like the job they had to do. The Army was everywhere, from Fort Dix to Chungking, from Reykjavik to Port Darwin. Country boys in khaki, with the hayseed barely combed out of their hair, soldiered at Khorram Shar within hiking distance of the muddy confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Officers who had never been off the pavements set up camps on atolls in the Pacific or led men through the drifting fogs of the Aleutians to new homes that must be built. In the miasmas of Surinam...
...hard to hide what he was doing. He struck daily and with increasing fury at the Allied base at Port Moresby on the south shore of New Guinea, seemed willing to spend men and planes recklessly to drive the United Nations from their bases there. He also smashed at Darwin, but with less determination, presumably because it was harder to get to, and because it could wait its turn...
...Japs took a licking last week. They took it over and off northern Australia: at Kupang in Timor; at Salamaua and Lae in New Guinea, where U.S. and Aussie bombs scrambled scores of Jap planes on the ground; at Darwin, where four, possibly six, Jap bombers fell in one raid. More & more U.S. and Australian planes met fewer & fewer Japanese planes. Still more U.S. fighters, pilots and ground crews were arriving; more bombers were completing the long air-ferry leap across the Pacific...