NEGRO ENGINEERS
FINE WORK IN NEW GUINEA (N.Z.P.A. Special Aust. Correspondent) (Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, Apl. 30. A negro engineering unit, which arrived in New Guinea a year ago, celebrated its first anniversary with a parade before Brigadier-general McNider. The negroes were the first American troops to reach New Guinea. “Since your arrival you have helped in every contact with the enemy,” General McNider said in his address. “ Your work —building and maintaining airfields—made possible the Bismarck Sea battle and the flying of our infantry over the Owen Stanley mountains. You have built causeways and docks, unloaded ships, built roads and bi'idges. laid water mains and power lines. You have helped to deliver the tanks which had such a big role in the Buna fighting. You have hung bombs on planes, and have had them hung round your necks. You are one of the hardest worked outfits in this man’s army.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25214, 1 May 1943, Page 5
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