Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly at midweek, Singapore burst into cheers. The British Malayan Command at last threw the Australians into battle. Flippant as ever, the Aussies moved up to the line, through columns of haggard retiring Britons and Indians, in busses marked' "Tokyo or Bust" and "Nippon Express...
...Adjusting lifebelts, we stepped out in the inky blackness of the quarterdeck and raced toward the bridge. We had barely started when the first torpedo smashed into the after port side with a burst of flame, heavily rocking the Galatea. . . ." After two more torpedoes had struck the Galatea...
...back door and windows were locked. The Commandos went around to the front door and knocked. A polite German sentry opened the door. The Commandos shot him. They burst open another door, dispatched two German staff officers with their pistols and tommy guns. By this time the whole building was awake...
Japanese artillery lined the mainland shore, pumped streams of shell into island positions. One by one British batteries went silent, British searchlights winked out. In the first eight days 45 air raids pocked British positions with terrifying accuracy. On Dec. 18 the Japanese burst across to the island itself. The British fought on. As food, water and ammunition ran short, they charged Japanese positions to certain death from machine guns. The Japanese established themselves in the eastern corner of the island, pressed on. Soon they held three of Hong Kong's reservoirs. Under their bombardments the island...
...Navy launch toward the minefield sown in the harbor's mouth beyond Corregidor's forbidding heights. Somehow in the dark she ran past the launch. The warning shout from the launch was lost in a vast red explosion. The old Corregidor, her hull burst, settled in shark-ridden waters...