Word: timorous
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Since the Battle of the Coral Sea the Japs had done little but raid Darwin and Port Moresby inconclusively. To these attacks, bombers under General MacArthur's command had replied with raids on Jap bases in New Britain, New Guinea, Timor and one 800-mile thrust at Celebes. But, by the standards of global war, this was relative quiet along a South Pacific front which three months ago seemed destined for more of the war's hottest fighting...
Bombers from Australian bases raided Timor, to the northwest, bunged up a flying field, fought their way home untouched. U.S. four-motored bombers, piloted by Australians, flew 600 miles to the ex-Dutch naval base at Amboina, blasted shipping, knocked down three Zeros and came home one ship short...
...Japs took a licking last week. They took it over and off northern Australia: at Kupang in Timor; at Salamaua and Lae in New Guinea, where U.S. and Aussie bombs scrambled scores of Jap planes on the ground; at Darwin, where four, possibly six, Jap bombers fell in one raid. More & more U.S. and Australian planes met fewer & fewer Japanese planes. Still more U.S. fighters, pilots and ground crews were arriving; more bombers were completing the long air-ferry leap across the Pacific...
...Shall Return." From the take-off point to northern Australia was an eleven-hour flight for the Fortresses. Below them, or very near their course as air space is measured, lay the conquered Indies, the Japanese airdromes and troop centers on Timor, the New Guinea airfields and harbors where the Japs were massing and Allied bombs were dropping. It was a course straight across Japan's new Pacific barriers, and it was a course for Douglas MacArthur to remember on the southward flight. He expected to retrace it some...
...northern port of Darwin (pop. about 5,000). It may well be the first to meet invasion forces from the sea. Darwin, its adjoining coasts and the open desert in its rear are valuable to Australia because: 1) they lie within bomber reach of the Japanese in Java, Timor and New Guinea; 2) they form a front against overland penetration from the north. Darwin would be valuable to the Japs for its harbor and its airdromes, but mainly because, when conquered, it would no longer be a U.S.-Australian base for attack on Japan's southern line...