Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will require great understanding on the part of the Allies. . . . I, myself, go with the great joy of a man returning to his home. But I go with fear for what I may find-and for whom I may not find." Ready to follow the Red Army into his homeland, Frantisek Nemec knew whereof he spoke. When he last heard of his wife and daughter, they were in a Nazi concentration camp...
...then even the regimented Japs were beginning to ask when their fleet would come out and fight. For the nonce, plump, taciturn Shimada said nothing; Tokyo's radio fantasists explained to the homeland and to Greater East Asia that the thing to do was to wait and see: some time the U.S. fleet would find itself far from home. Then the Jap fleet would strike the crushing blow...
...Shimada knew that his problem was far tougher than Togo's. It was all very well to wait for the U.S. fleet to steam in close to the sacred homeland. The trouble was that the more he waited, the more hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned he would be. The U.S. fleet had grown to monstrous size, and had developed a way of taking its bases along with it. The Pacific was dotted with them...
This week the Japs in the Marianas felt the weight of his many weapons. With the Marianas secured, the U.S. Navy will be able to reach into the waters of the homeland, the seas which U.S. submarine men call "The Empire." The man rescued from a well had his cold eyes on new horizons...
France's Man? Other towns and villages saw him. Then, after six hours in the homeland, Charles de Gaulle went back to Britain. He left behind, in one corner of France, a new Government. With no apparent objections from the Allied High Command, which had its own administrative setup, Algiers had appointed François Coulet and Colonel Pierre de Chevigné administrators of liberated Normandy. With these Gaullist officials, Charles de Gaulle left instructions for the restoration of the republican regime. More than ever, the General was sure that he was France...