Word: lae
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They were Japanese ships, headed toward New Guinea. The news was an answer to Lieut. General George C. Kenney's prayers. Taking cover under the gathering storm, a Japanese convoy had slipped out of Rabaul and was edging down the dark New Britain coast with reinforcements for Lae, main Jap base in New Guinea. The Japs, driven out of Guadalcanal and Papua, were obviously pouring men and supplies into the chinks of their outposts north of Australia...
...destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with such ferocity that effective aid for the convoy could not get into...
...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...