Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...
Fish Stories. In Grand Coulee, Wash., Fisherman F. M. Heaton, returning home fishless, encountered a rattlesnake, tied a slipknot in his fishline, made a cast, proceeded homeward with a rattlesnake steak...
...this great shipping and naval base he had torn from the Dutch. Out of the dawn swept a formation of Liberator bombers, their exhausts glowing red. For 70 minutes they "buzzed" the city, bombing warehouses, railroads, docks. Most important target was the big oil refinery. As the bombers winged homeward to their Australian base, flames from the refinery could be seen for 140 miles. It was the longest raid of the Pacific war-2,400 miles round trip...
...seemed full of life when the column marched homeward to Leverett House through the late afternoon traffic. That rollicking song of the carefree soldier, "I've Got Sixpense," roared out of every throat with a wave of gusto, hitting the high notes especially on the line "Happy is the day when the Army gets...
Here on this Pacific island, there are few things I cherish now more than the sheer pleasure I find in reading. Much of that pleasure has been directly due to the battered Look Homeward, Angel now making the rounds in the barracks...