Word: fili
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battleships "Minnesota" and "Nebraska" before assuming duties at the Boston Navy Yard. In 1929, '30, and '32 he was in charge of three solar eclipse expeditions sponsored by the U. S. Naval Observatory. While on the first of these expeditions, he was adopted by the High Chief of Toto-fili and given as acre of palm trees on Niuafood Island...
...worked over the two badly wounded men, breaking out jungle medical kits and putting on bandages. As we worked we could hear screams and wailing outside, for the bombs had riddled several Fili pino houses. It wasn't until daylight, when our injured men had been taken away in an ambulance, that I fully realized what happened to our house. The side near the street was riddled with bomb fragments...