Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Honolulu, Admiral Chester Nimitz could attack with carrier forces and amphibious troops across the central Pacific, seizing bases from which the Navy could get athwart Japan's communications with her southern holdings. The other Navy objective: to seek out the Jap and destroy him. Supplementary to Nimitz's drive, but more as a diversion than a major operation, planes could attack Jap outposts from the Aleutians...
Retreat. On all these fronts the German retreat has been both costly and hurried, but not disorganized. Everywhere the Nazis found time to destroy the towns they abandoned; nowhere did they lose many prisoners...
When the test of World War II came, the little people of Italy helped Allied arms destroy Fascismo. They refused to fight for a corrupt regime, to love the German ally. Their revolt, at first passive, then open, sapped Benito Mussolini's edifice, forced Badoglio to surrender...
Robert Donat plays a British chemist who undertakes a secret, suicidally difficult mission to Rumania. His orders: to get a job in a Nazi plant which is manufacturing the most destructive poison gas in history. He must also learn the formula and destroy the plant in time to avert the use of the gas against Britain...
...Unity produced the "Basic Principles" for union. Last Sunday New York's Bishop William T. Manning, in one fistlike sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, beat the Basic Principles, and probably all hope of church union, to a pulp. The Basic Principles, said Manning, would destroy the Episcopal faith, turn the Episcopal Church into a Presbyterian Church...