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With the Australians in Korea choose

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[Aus] N. Bartlett With Australians in Korea 55: The retreat from Yopa-ri to Hayu-ri [...] lives in the memory of many 3rd Battalion men as their worst day in Korea. [...] They felt they were ‘buggin’ out’.
at bug out, v.1
[Aus] N. Bartlett With Australians in Korea 133: The destroyer [...] had a pin-point position to steer for, where a Skyraider from the U.S. carrier Boxer had ‘ditched’.
at ditch, v.2
[Aus] N. Bartlett With Australians in Korea 217: This old bloke says there are about a hundred noggies in the village.
at noggy, n.
[Aus] N. Bartlett With Australians in Korea 251: General Everest realized that escape and survival as we knew it in World War II was just ‘not on’ in Korea.
at not on, adj.
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