Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nickname was the Sparrow Force, was driven to the hills when the Japs attacked Timor with a superior force in February. The Sparrows had rifles, a few machine guns, a little ammunition and 400 miles of open sea between themselves and refuge. Their only hope was radio contact with Darwin...
...Loveless came up with a weird machine in a four-gallon kerosene tin. It had been assembled from parts of a weak transmitter, a native's receiver and a few pieces of wire, put together with a bamboo soldering stick. But it worked. Joe Loveless called Darwin...
...Darwin, suspicious of a message from an outfit given up as lost for two months, radioed: "Is Jack Sargent there...
...Darwin: "What is his wife's name...
...Darwin believed. XYZ radioed...