Word: amoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German garrisons in Channel and Biscay ports remained after the sweep across France. They would remain for a similar purpose : to deny such ports and bases as Singapore and Saigon, Batavia and Suerabaja to the Allies. Others like them would remain in major Chinese ports, such as Canton, Amoy and Swatow...
...lanes. Instead, their own cargo carriers and escort craft were being bombed and strafed from Indo-China to the Ryukyus. Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet carriers (16, by enemy count) sent planes up & down the coast and the island chain. They hammered Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy and Canton in China; Takao on Formosa; Okinawa in the Ryukyus. Primarily, their job was to keep the Japs from flying planes or shipping supplies and reinforcements to Luzon. Also, if an enemy naval force should appear, Halsey would be ready...
...still compiling the results of these assaults, the Halsey force swung back to the north. A combat air patrol (200 planes, by enemy count) went to work on Formosa. But there were enough planes left to make carrier-aviation history, by swooping down on the China coast to attack Amoy, Swatow and the captive British colony of Hong Kong...
...started as deputy consul in Shanghai, moved around among the consulates in Tientsin, Amoy, Tsinan and Peiping. Back as Consul General in Shanghai in the ticklish years preceding the Sino-Japanese war, he made a quiet reputation for himself by getting small things done unobtrusively and well. As a longtime resident of China, he became virtually the head of Shanghai's International Settlement...
...demolish the Chinese armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan would give up concessions in Amoy, Hankow, Soochow, Hangchow, Tientsin...