Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs said that Japanese civilians would fight to the last if their homeland was invaded. Twenty-seven said that they would fight until it looked hopeless. Seventy-nine thought that they would not fight...
...Volcano group, whence Jap fighters took off to harry 6-295 bombing Honshu, and whence Jap bombers took off to bomb the Superfort base at Saipan.* Later, when bases nearer to Japan had been won, Harmon could use 8-24 Liberators alongside their bigger cousins against the enemy homeland...
Mexican Cinemactor Jorge Negrete bowed his head over the casket to pronounce the last eulogy. "Lupe, our friend," he said, "you are being lowered into the ground of your homeland." Nobody heard...
...Worry." Anything Can Happen is the record of George's 20 years in America. It is essentially a collection of anecdotes such as an immigrant returned to his homeland might tell to his wondering grandchildren. Few books have ever made the U.S. seem so exotic. The stories were written by Helen Papashvily, George's American-born wife, exactly as he told them, with his florid language and his owlish humor carefully preserved...
...against Japan stood about where the war against Germany stood in 1943. The strategic bombardment of the enemy homeland had begun; but the battles with the enemy's major land forces were still to come. Soldiers in the Pacific complained that their war was neglected by the U.S. press and public. Yet the people were only following the cue of the Allied leaders; the defeat of Germany had been given priority over the defeat of Japan...