Word: oro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Last February I was Chief Motor Machinist Mate of a Coast Guard-manned small Army F boat which carried 116 corpses from Oro Bay, New Guinea to Finschhafen, New Guinea, where a cemetery was being established for the Southwest Pacific Area...
Many of these bodies had already been moved two or three times, namely from the Solomons and New Britain to the beautiful little cemetery at Oro Bay, in which also the dead from the Buna-Gona campaign had been buried...
Last week the Dominican Republic's Ambassador to Brazil stalked into the Foreign Ministry at Rio de Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican Republic's Dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The groom: plump, baldish Brazilian Industrialist Antenor Mayrink Veiga...
...first Guinea Gold was published only at Port Moresby, on creaky linotypes and antiquated flat-bed presses. A month ago a branch was set up at Dobadura, near Oro Bay. Copies are distributed by jeep and mail where feasible, are dropped from planes to forward troops and isolated outposts. Printing and distribution troubles are tremendous and frequent...
...eleven fights, only once has he been scared. When the Japs raided Oro Bay last March, Dicks Bong made a pass at a dive-bomber and then realized a Zero had tagged on to him. He headed out to sea to get clear and flip around and meet the Jap head on. "Imagine my surprise when there were nine Zeros instead of one. But it was too late for anything else, so I tore right into them." Bong...