National archives. In 1942, new guinea was divided into two territories. Pap papua, new guinea was under british control, the island has mountains reaching to 16,000 feet. Port morsby was the only military base in the country. The japanese control the entire island except morseby from their large beach at rabaul, new britain. Night raids were also common. It took the allies 2 1 2 years to eliminate the japanese from the island. General mcarthurs leap frog tactics neutralized many of the enemy. Our chaplain conducting Easter Services in northern australia, 1943. We are 600 miles south of ft. Morseby, new guinea, or fourth fighting squadrons, had just returned from new guinea. These are air corps personnel preparing to embark on another trip to new guinea, our third to enemy action. Barracks back were a good portion of these men were airplane resection people. These are pilots and ground officers getting their first promotion. Note the variety of uniforms. Mostly australian clothing, inc
Machines are still in peoples homes. An exclusive report as breakfast hears claims of chaos in the special Educational Needs system in england. In sport, Johanna Konta looks back to her best. The british number one cruises through to the second round of the Australian Open, after a confident straight sets win. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Good morning. It is a cold start to the late for many of us. Cold start to the late for many of us. It will be a cold day generally. We have brisk wind in the forecast adding to the cold feel and as well as that we have snow showers for some even at low levels. And then the weather livens up. I will have more details in 15 minutes. That sounds exciting. Thank you. Good morning. First, our main story, the future of some Major Construction projects and hundreds of Public Service contracts hang in the balance this morning after the collapse of carillion. Britains second Largest Construction Firm, which also holds cleaning and catering contrac
A major ground offensive is next aljazeera other reports. There is no frontline in eastern huta. Oh residential neighborhoods have become battlegrounds the Syrian Government under to allies are bombing the besieged rebel enclave into submission. Look the suburb of damascus is under attack well her car was. Going well we heard a plane overhead the myside landed people were torn into pieces i was with my nephew and we were both injured what i heard was the sound of an ambulance and i found myself here hundreds killed hundreds more injured the United Nations says makeshift hospitals are being hit some are now out of service there is a humanitarian crisis and there is nowhere to hide. There is no safe place i tried to convince my parents to say in the first floor of our building thinking it would be safer but they told me theres no difference because buildings are being flattened in the strikes. The government said military reinforcements to the frontlines around the besieged enclave the p
Clay of joy and five days of bombardment they have all the still the agreement at the un on ordering a cease fire to allow the area is facing opposition from russia us as the last go is blocking any meaningful action yesterday russias permanent representative asked that asked what we should do about Eastern Ghouta the people of Eastern Ghouta u. N. Officials humanitarian and human rights leaders and indeed pretty much the entirety of this council have answered stop the bombing of eastern. Allow medical assistance and the rest of the council is ready to act. We urge the council to move forward with this ceasefire and humanitarian resolution immediately. Donald trump has told americas largest gun lobby the National Rifle association that the us needs to toughen up some rules around gun control the president said the legal age to buy guns is to be raised from eighteen to twenty one years with the suggestions of a School Safety meeting one week after seventeen people were killed in the Dea
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