Word: fijis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...
Third and most important is the international question of the post-war status of U.S. airlines which pioneer and fly wartime routes over British soil. The U.S. is pouring millions of dollars and invaluable aviation know-how into huge air bases on British territories, such as Bermuda, the Fiji and the Solomon Islands-yet to date there is no assurance of landing rights after...
After Admiral King was called to Washington last December, but before he publicly took command, the Pacific Fleet got its fundamental orders: "Hold the Hawaiian Islands area on the Midway line at all costs," and "Hold the communications line to the southwest Pacific on the Samoa-Fiji line and extend it to New Caledonia" (see map, p. 32). Said Admiral King last week...
...Tedder has been in aviation. Before he joined the infant Royal Flying Corps in 1916, he had just been an English gentleman, a graduate of Cambridge's Magdalene College (where he became an avid reader of Shakespeare), a rugby player, a colonial servant of the Empire stationed at Fiji, and a soldier in the Dorsetshire Regiment. But military aviation seized his intense mind and has occupied it ever since...
...Fiji Islands number 250, of which 80 are inhabited. They spread over 300 miles across the international dateline, so that it may be Thursday on one island and Friday on the next...