{"id":4615,"date":"2026-01-04T00:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/griffin-w-e-b-the-corps-05-line-of-fire-griffin-w-e-b\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:36:10","slug":"griffin-w-e-b-the-corps-05-line-of-fire-griffin-w-e-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/griffin-w-e-b-the-corps-05-line-of-fire-griffin-w-e-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin, W.E.B. – The Corps 05 – Line Of Fire – Griffin, W. E. B."},"content":{"rendered":"
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BUKA, SOLOMON ISLANDS <\/p>\n

SPRING AND SUMMER 1942 <\/p>\n

In the early months of 1942, a Major of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps in Australia was forced to reconsider his long-held belief that he’d passed the point where the Army could surprise him. <\/p>\n

The Pacific & Far East Shipping Corporation’s freighter John J. Rogers Jr. docked at Melbourne after a long and perilous voyage from Bremerton, Washington. In addition to desperately needed war material , it off-loaded 800 identical, sturdy wooden crates. Each of these was roughly three feet by three feet by four feet, weighed 320 pounds, and was strapped with steel, waterproofed, and otherwise prepared for a long sea voyage. <\/p>\n

These crates were loaded aboard trucks and taken to the U.S. Army Melbourne Area Ordnance Depot, a requisitioned warehouse area on the outskirts of the city. Because they were in waterproof packaging and inside storage space was at a premium (and because the Ordnance Corps Major could not leave the shipping manifest), the crates were placed on palettes holding four of the crates-and stored outside under canvas tarpaulins. <\/p>\n

It was two weeks before the Ordnance Corps Major could find time to locate the shipment, remove the tarpaulin, cut the metal strapping, pry open the crates, then tear off the heavy tar-paper wrapping. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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