Word: lae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent practices, Chase has had two lines and four defensemen in uniform in preparation for the Terrier title. John Crocker, Rob Feleney, and Dave Farrell have been performeing together as one trie of forwards, opposed by Wally Sears, Art Lae, and Dave Key, while Ollie Taylor, Bill Glidden, George Gobelein, and George Tilghman have been serving at defcuse...
September: MacArthur's airborne troops landed behind Lae...
...other Slavik children lived on their father's scant coal-mining wages. At 16, Mike lied about his age and escaped into the Army. In the Army, Mike won a hero's medals, but injuries and battle strain were too much for him. He was hurt at Lae, but when he was sent to an Australian hospital, he ran away and was A.W.O.L. for three months. Sent back into the Pacific fighting, he was wounded and suddenly cracked up. He now admits: "I just couldn't take it any more." The Army kept him in rest hospitals...
...Texan named Richard Carmichael has been in the middle of the war. In Australia his squadron joined the famed 19th Group which made its way out of the Philippines and Java. During the lean days of 1942 Carmichael made many a daring bombing mission over Lae, Salamaua, Rabaul, won the DSC, DFC, Silver Star. As a lieutenant colonel he took command of the 19th...
Considering its strategic importance, MacArthur's coastal campaign had been one of the most economical of World War II. The first stages had been slow and costly: a heartrending series of marches through jungles and over mountains to battle at Buna, Gona, Sanananda, Salamaua, Lae. But while the campaign to secure a foothold on one tip of the great island was being fought the hard way, a better, smarter war was being planned...