Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern doorstep of Japan's homeland, and down through the westernmost reaches of the Pacific, Admiral William F. Halsey's U.S. Third Fleet bombed and maneuvered with unprecedented power and dash. The Japanese had no difficulty reading the signs...
...floating command" aimed at China and the Jap homeland, under Admiral Nimitz...
Brigadier General La Verne ("Blondy") Saunders launched the Twentieth Bomber Command on the heaviest aerial assault yet staged from Asiatic bases. He threw his full striking power into a 24-hour assault; he challenged the defensive reserves of the Jap air force with the first daylight raid on the homeland-the kind of mission for which the Superfortress was designed...
...daylight blow, four planes were lost to enemy action; all the planes in the night raid returned to their bases. The Twentieth had paid heavily in men and material to ascertain what the Imperial Air Force could do to defend its homeland. But if this was the Jap's best, it was not good enough...
...there were diehard royalists; in Greece, diehard leftists. At the Lebanon Conference to reconcile Greek factions (TIME, May 29), Greek factions fought about the King's return, civil liberties, Governmental posts for members of the Greek underground Government (PEEA). Envoys of the Communist-led EAM, biggest of the homeland's resistance groups, were offered five Cabinet posts, insisted on holding six key posts. When their demands were refused, the men of EAM returned to Greece in a huff...