Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces operating from the islands to the east. And Australia's defenses were not half so strong as Douglas MacArthur would have liked. But of air strength MacArthur had enough to keep the Jap worried and off balance. He used it, while among the islands to the northeast the U.S. craft prowled, and watched their chance...
...fighters, defying analysis of his advance by the dazzling multiplicity of his spearheads. The Jap flung his main force in a curiously variegated pattern. Above Lashio, some 100 miles, he branched into two forks, sent one column north to Myitkyina, where he established an air base. Another column swung northeast up the Burma Road...
...area it looked as if he might be headed for a land attack on Port Moresby, which he had not been able to reduce by air raiding. But as he plowed south, it became clear that he was after a more important target. He was headed either for the northeast coast of Australia, or for the strategic prize of New Caledonia, 1,200 miles to the east on the Australian lifeline, where the U.S. had already landed...
...side there had been losses in planes, and probably in ships. It took Douglas MacArthur's angry prose to as sure the U.S. people that the victory had not been too expensive: "The enemy version of the battle off, the northeast coast of Australia is entirely fictional and has no semblance of a true communiqué of fact. . . . His claims of damage ... are fantastic. Our losses compared to his own are relatively light...
...odds the Crimson should have lost by at least ten goals, since they had won only one game all year, and that to a makeshift Boston Lacrosse Club crew while the home team was already recognized as the best in the Northeast...