Word: fairbairn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green-clad Australian troops swept on to the Gap atop New Guinea's Owen Stanley Mountain Range, neared Kokoda, which had been occupied by the Japs in August. But Lieut. General Sydney Fairbairn Rowell's crack Imperial troops had not yet found the main Jap forces which were supposed to be threatening Port Moresby. U.S. pilots strafed and bombed villages further along which the enemy had been known to occupy. General Rowell ordered up supplies, guns, ammunition, more troops, prepared to strengthen his positions along one of the world's wildest jungle-&-mountain trails, just in case...
...where it uses the air-conditioned offices of Amalgamated Wireless Co. (The Government offices are not air-conditioned). One morning last week Army Minister Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street found in Melbourne that there was nothing for it but he must fly up to Canberra, taking Air Minister James V. Fairbairn, Vice President of the Executive Council Sir Henry Somer Gullett and Chief of the Australian General Staff Lieut. General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White. The party was so large that the Air Minister could not take them in his favorite little Percival plane. Instead he ordered out a big Lockheed...