Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to stave off with counter-attacks - the most recent of which, only two nights before, had cost him 33 tanks when his armor plunged headlong into British gun positions. It was a moment carefully chosen: the Eighth Army had taken Takrouna and was diverting Axis strength to the southwest; since before dawn other British units of the First Army had been attacking just to the south; before the next dawn American units would launch their attack to the northeast...
...Kong area, they next bomb southern China and come up against Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. The survivors proceed to Thailand and Burma, where they still tangle with the Fourteenth and also with R.A.F. and U.S. airmen based in India. Last stop for those still alive is the Southwest Pacific, where the Japs concentrate their best equipment, their finest airmen...
What the Japs Want. The situation in the Southwest Pacific had not suddenly changed in any important respect last week, except that the Japanese haa begun to cash in on four to six months' gradual preparations along their 6,000-mile defensive arc. For some time they had been building airstrips, until now there were 65 between Timor and Munda. For some time they had been moving troops to a maze of forward garrisons, until there were seven to ten divisions in line. Some of these were good troops: one division had fought several months in China against...
...raised four captains commanding forces whose size warrants a flag officer but no admiral: Oscar Smith of Special Task Force No. 1; Lee Payne Johnson of the Atlantic Fleet's rear echelon; South Pacific Amphibious Force's transport commander, Lawrence F. Reifsnider; Robert Grimes Coman of the Southwest Pacific's Service Force. Like their Army counterparts, brigadier generals, commodores will wear one star. Like all task-force men, their chances of seeing action are never...
Lieut. General George Kenney, the Southwest Pacific's air commander, announced the loss of his fourth key airman in three months: Major Kenneth Mc-Cullar of Batesville, Miss., partner with the late Major William Benn in developing low-level skip-bombing (TIME, Jan. 18). Major Benn and Brigadier Generals Kenneth Walker and Howard Ramey were lost in action, but Major McCullar's death was due to a freak accident...