Word: papua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wettest, highest jungle, enabling combat troops to cross the mountains on the Australians' flank and knock at the Japs' back door. More troops came in planes which landed on a natural strip discovered in the jungle. Said General MacArthur: "The Allied forces now control all of Papua except the beachhead in the Buna-Gona area...
...only. There are no civilians left in New Guinea. Papua's white population was never more than 2,000. Those who were not taken into the Australian army, chiefly for such jobs as required dealing with natives, were evacuated six months ago and more. There are no women. Even native women have been sent back into the hills. Native men are brought in from their villages for two-month turns at simple, light labor. They wear dirty skirts called ramis and spend their idle moments combing their hair with four-pronged metal forks...
...gone to work for the mission. Under their tutelage, the mission built airdromes at Ogelbeng, Ega, Asaloka and Raipinka-but missionaries would naturally want to carry the gospel into the interior jungles. When World War II broke out, they flew the mission's single-engined Junkers plane, Papua, to Dutch New Guinea and hid it in the bush. Then-it was reported-they proceeded to Germany...
...Glee. In Papua, natives laughed excitedly and clapped their hands as they paid their taxes (according to a magistrate's report...
...battle fleet, its maneuvers completed, its next job not yet laid out. Beyond the battle fleet and across the Pacific many a U. S. businessman cast an uneasy mind's eye. For south and east from the foot of Thailand (Siam) across the Java Sea to Papua lie The Netherlands East Indies, whence the U. S. gets major portions of two strategic materials: rubber and tin. With The Netherlands at war, Japan might cut off that supply, alternatively might exploit a grab by controlling production, prices...