Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dead Japs Don't Lie. General Arnold cited many a glowing fact & figure from the Pacific war to prove the worth of U.S. fighters. This week a correspondent in Australia reported that P-40 squadrons at Darwin had downed 31 Jap bombers, 41 Jap Zeros, and lost only 15 P-40s in the last few months. Apparently the U.S. fighter commander at Darwin, like-General Chennault, is an exceptionally astute leader. Last week the P-40s at Darwin did what theoretically they could not do: bagged a flock of Zeros at 25,000 feet, far above their normal altitude...
...enemy, too, stepped up his aerial activity. He struck his hardest blow at Port Darwin on Australia's northern coast. In his first big night raid he sent over 27 bombers escorted by 22 Zeroes. Allied fighters met them, knocked down nine planes, lost only one. Again, Australia's defenders sent up no shouts of victory. Pared down to a minimum of equipment, they feared the implications of the big raid. It must mean that Japanese air strength in the South Pacific was on the rise. And on the future they looked with a strange, foreboding pleasure: there...
...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...