Word: lae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia for the U.S. Army Post Exchanges there. Copies will also get through to the American outposts on the islands of the South Pacific, to be given away by the Army morale branch (Special Services) to the troops on Guadalcanal, at Buna-Gona, and on the fighting front before Lae and Salamaua. And more copies will be made available to the Navy for the Marines and for the sailors of the task force fleets...
When the Japanese first took Lae and Salamaua early in 1942, an Australian garrison fell back to the Wau area, and held it all through the year, even after the Japs moved to Buna. Fortnight ago, when Jap patrols infiltrated to Wau, as they have infiltrated many areas even on the south coast of New Guinea, the Allies flew reinforcements to the little Wau field -which had suddenly become more valuable than the gold it was built to carry out. The Jap patrols were pushed back...
...bombers continued to attack the Japs at Salamaua and Lae in northern New Guinea and at Rabaul in New Britain. By land, air & sea, troops would have to follow the bombers before the Pacific Allies finished what they had begun in Papua and the Solomons...
...night and next day George Kenney's airmen hammered at the convoy and its protecting planes. Mitchell bombers sank a transport which rolled over in the shallow water near the Lae jetty, knocked down five Zeros which attempted to interfere. Beaufighters swept into the Lae airdrome, burnt up one Zero, shot up others on the runway. In the late afternoon the oft-derided Kittyhawks were attacked by 18 Zeros. Score: 13 Zeros shot down, one Kittyhawk (pilot safe). When 20 more Zeros jumped some Lightnings they lost all but five. Total Jap planes lost in three days: 85 certain...
...only 32 miles from Port Moresby. MacArthur, his chief of staff Major General Richard K. Sutherland (a pilot himself), Australian General Blamey and Kenney fixed on a plan: to wrest control of the air, despite hell and high mountains, by blasting the Japs out of Buna and far-off Lae and Salamaua, the bases from which Buna was supplied...