Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coffee Jamok (Contr. of Java-Mocha Salt Sea Dust
...Memphis Belle. Riding with him was the task-force commander, 38-year-old Brigadier General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., a veteran of the long, bitter delaying action early in the war when a handful of U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to Australia...
This week the sight's inventor, Java-born Carl L. Norden, was to be awarded the Holley Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his invention. Meantime, the Navy announced that Inventor Norden had a collaborator, Captain Frederick I. Entwistle, assistant research chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. Captain Entwistle, who joined Norden in his experiments in 1928, shares the patents and the credit for the final model...
From the Kurils to Java the Japanese were scanning the skies and the seas for the foe who had promised them that: 1) thousands of bombers would come to devastate their cities as Germany's had been devastated; 2) early in 1945 there would be twice as many fast carriers in the U.S. Pacific Fleet as there were last...
...jungles, said the Australian Army commander, General Sir Thomas Blamey, last week. Army Minister Francis Forde announced Australia's casualties since 1939: 83,976* including 16,639 killed, 5,976 missing. When the time comes to root Japs out of other bypassed areas, such as Java and Malaya, observers do not doubt that the Diggers will be doing that rooting, too. The Diggers' rear-area assignment would not be the hardest life they had seen, but it would be no vacation tour...