Word: militiamen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia, General MacArthur had a few thousand U.S. troops. He had perhaps 100,000 equipped and trained and valiant regulars, many militiamen & home guards, a few hundred U.S. airmen and planes...
...silver night, the men and their machines were on their way across. Not a single enemy plane was overhead to make things messy. The men were of many nations-Australians, Scottish Highlanders, English regulars, bearded Sikhs, wiry Gurkhas, Malayan militiamen-but they were of one mind. They had their single mind on the question of how to hold this crafty enemy...
Then the enemy came by sea. Rabaul sighted three carriers, five transports near its harbor, saw planes overhead. Aussie militiamen radioed that they would blow up the town's wharf and power station and retreat fighting. Then no more was heard from Rabaul by radio. The Jap landed in the Solomons, in New Ireland, at a few tentative points in ill-defended New Guinea...
...greatest annoyance to Little Caesar remained the fact that he was still not at all sure about the trigger value of his own mob. Italians who cheered scenes in a war film showing the Allies to advantage had to be slapped and kicked in the pants by Fascist militiamen. The Roman Stock Exchange took a sickening 50-point dip at signs of Nazi-Fascist military cooperation...