Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaviest blow of the vast Pacific war struck the Japanese Empire in the week when U.S. air bombardment of the homeland began. U.S. amphibious forces, from what was probably the mightiest naval task group ever assembled, stormed ashore on heavily fortified Saipan. They were only 1,500 miles from Tokyo. Previous landing assaults had been against the outer perimeter of Jap defenses. But this was disaster close to home...
Less than a year ago the Navy's utmost effort was an island hop onto New Georgia. In beginning the Marianas campaign the Navy had completed a gargantuan, leap 3,750 miles from its main base at Pearl Harbor to within 1,500 miles of Japan's homeland...
Japan could not afford to let Saipan go. The shots of the U.S., getting closer & closer, were on the target now. When the Navy got Saipan, the next shots could be on the bull's eye-Japan's homeland. Opened by old Matt Perry with blandishments almost a century ago, Japan was on the way to being opened again-with steel. One of the mathematical minds behind that quickening progression was Admiral Spruance...
...dreary wasteland camp, 5,000 men of the Greek First Brigade trained for battle service. Many were tough veterans, evzones who had doffed their exotic petti coats and pomponed slippers to fight frost bite and Italians in Albania's wild mountains. They had escaped from the homeland when the Germans turned the tide. Now they chafed to get back into the fight against the Fascists...
Ways of Death. Germany's Essener National Zeitung printed an indignant article about Norwegians who had been schooled in sabotage by the British Intelligence Service in Britain, returned to their homeland to practice their craft. Anti-Nazi saboteurs, said the Zeitung, got their instructions by radio from London, carried handbooks with suggestive queries: "What is your first and last step when using a time fuse? What are two fundamental rules when using pistols? Mention two fundamental principles of jujitsu. What are the most sensitive parts of the body where a blow might bring death...