Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems a shame that there aren't more writers to defend General Patton. No one criticized him when he led the Third Army through Germany. Now that he has returned to his homeland, bombarding him with criticism certainly isn't very appreciative...
...years she was in the news almost daily. When she made a triumphal tour of the U.S., millions came to see & hear her. A year ago, ill and exhausted, she retired from public life, 10,000 miles from her homeland. Last week Mme. Chiang Kai-shek was nearing the end of her retirement, and looking forward...
Said Chiang: "Where it takes $10 for one American soldier, only $1 is necessary for ours. We must remember that the Chinese soldier is fighting in his own homeland. He knows the topography better than anyone else. He is more suitable to the climate and conditions of fighting. To send American troops where we can employ Chinese troops is not very logical. It would be a big strain on the line of communications...
...first time, Japan's home islands saw a U.S. fleet and felt the lightning strokes of its big guns. While a thousand carrier planes swirled over the homeland, battleships, cruisers and destroyers stood in toward shore...
They had lost a base within 400 miles of their home islands, only 1,100 miles from Tokyo; this base would soon be the springboard for vast assaults on their homeland. They had lost (by preliminary count) 98,564 men killed and 4,500 captured...