
The Cactus Air Force
The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War
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The Invasion of Australia
When we invaded, you'll remember that there was a small contingent of Japanese soldiers and a bunch of Korean slaves. And this was precisely what Admiral King was all agitated about because this airfield was going to really interrupt our plans for communication with Australia. I mean, it's still we're building the thing when we landed and so much so that it took almost three weeks to get the airfield to where we could land aircraft. It wasn't until the 20th that the first aircraft arrived.
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