Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles via the Panama Canal, 13,000 miles by ship and train via New York and San Francisco). Even more difficult than moving would be the job of finding places to base them. The Philippines, most convenient and adequate staging area, are 1,350 miles from the Japanese homeland...
Quiet, greying President Sergio Osmeña went back to his liberated homeland with a burden of personal sorrow-war had brought death to three of his eight sons.* Last week, in Washington, he publicly acknowledged an even deeper personal tragedy. Two of his sons are in Manila's Bilibid Prison, charged with collaborating with the Japanese...
Died. Bernard Flexner, 80, whose Kentucky-born brothers Abraham and Simon directed, respectively, Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, himself founder of the Palestine Economic Corp. for the economic rehabilitation and development of the Jewish homeland; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...Allies seemed to be taking a warlike census of historic Italian cities. Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army swept northward from Bologna, spanned the Po's yellow waters and raced for the mountains. They bypassed Mantua, Virgil's homeland Verona, the town of Romeo and Juliet. Milan, Italy's No. 1 industrial city, was occupied; so was Turin...
Last week Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz posted the score for a month of his task forces' sweeps against the Japanese homeland and the Ryukyus invasion campaign. The enemy losses were staggering: more than 100 warships and auxiliary vessels sunk, 2,569 planes destroyed...