Word: sanananda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muscular Michael Slavik, 23, decided to have another drink. To a man who has killed a dozen-or-so Japs in the jungles of Goodenough Island, Finschhaven and Sanananda, there is not much going on in Passaic, N.J. To Mike, L's Tavern in Passaic looked like a more exciting place to welcome Christmas in than his neatly furnished cubicle at the Gregory Street rooming house. But even at a bar, an ex-sergeant of paratroopers who has won a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a shell fragment in his right leg and a bayonet scar...
Considering its strategic importance, MacArthur's coastal campaign had been one of the most economical of World War II. The first stages had been slow and costly: a heartrending series of marches through jungles and over mountains to battle at Buna, Gona, Sanananda, Salamaua, Lae. But while the campaign to secure a foothold on one tip of the great island was being fought the hard way, a better, smarter war was being planned...
...Indians were among the American troops advancing along the jungle road to Sanananda. One of them was Mess Sergeant Floyd Archiquette. A Jap sniper was firing near the mess tent. "He was making a nuisance of himself," said the sergeant. "Someone...
Last week from the Sanananda front in New Guinea came a dramatic eyewitness dispatch telling of the fighting that broke the last Jap resistance in Papua. Over it was Vice President Bartholomew's byline...
...sniper's slug the size of a silver dollar which had torn through from the back, just missing his heart. But because of the soothing hypodermic and the yellowish fluid now trickling into his arm, he was breathing easily. Only 40 minutes before he had been patrolling the Sanananda shore in the steaming rain. Said Major Swinton: "Those people at home should know how their plasma is being used...