Dutch New Guinea
Britishnoun
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The image that Royal Mail used showed American troops carrying stretchers ashore in Dutch New Guinea in May 1944, weeks before the Normandy landings.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2018
Royal Mail has withdrawn a stamp marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day - after BBC News pointed out it showed US troops landing in what was Dutch New Guinea, nearly 8,500 miles from France.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2018
The stamp shows U.S. troops landing in what was Dutch New Guinea in Asia -- not the June 6, 1944 Normandy invasion in northern France, the BBC reported.
From Fox News ● Dec. 28, 2018
In 1936, Dutch geologist Jean Jacques Dozy climbed the world’s highest island peak: the forbidding Mount Carstensz, a snow-covered silver crag on what was then known as Dutch New Guinea.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2016
Williams, Thomas, 408, 412, 413, 452, 467 Williamson, R. W., 201 Wind, ghosts float down the, 176 Windessi, in Dutch New Guinea, burial customs at, 318 sq.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
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