Word: espiritu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named chief of the Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific, distinguished himself not only as a commander but as a castaway-he spent six days on a raft eating raw albatross and being parboiled by the tropic sun after a 6-17 crash at sea, near Espiritu Santo. He went to Italy, where he commanded the Fifteenth Air Force for 20 months, and then came back to the Pacific as commander of the Twentieth Air Force, whose 6-293 dropped the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Guadalcanal, the pet puppies of the G.I.s are now wild dogs; the British colonial officials again dress for dinner. At Espiritu Santo, once a huge U.S. base, now a placid French colony again, the natives wear T-shirts and tailor-made shorts. Said the chief of police when Michener departed: "You must be very sorry to leave so happy an island. Where everybody dances and gets drunk and the chief of police never makes a fuss...