Word: fijis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elaborately whittled, fragile-looking Fiji spears. The kinky-haired Fijians did a lot of fighting but very little damage, although when they did succeed in sticking somebody, they...
...37th trained in the heat of the deep South and practiced jungle combat in the Fiji Islands. In the summer of 1943 it landed on New Georgia for its baptism of fire. There the 43rd Division had been fighting a grisly campaign to seize Munda airfield. Men lived in foxholes where infiltrating Japanese sometimes found them and fought them with knives and bare hands...
Other specimens recently acquired by the University come from Mexico, China, Australia, Fiji, Belgian Congo, the Philippines and Borneo, bringing the collection total...
...troops in the South Pacific, the exploits of Fiji scouts on Bougainville are already legendary. The smiling, coal-black British colonials, tall, husky and soldierly, have deeply impressed G.I.s with their jungle craft and cool courage. One whom troops of the U.S. XIV Army Corps will long remember was Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu...
Fuzzie Wuzzies Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson, voted the best cinemactor and actress by General MacArthur's troops, got the first "Fuzzy Wuzzy" Oscars: effigies of Fiji Islanders mounted on fragments of Jap airplane metal...