Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veterans of Wake Island and Bataan also emerged from Jap prison camps last week. They listened almost dazedly to the conversation of U.S. medical men. They had no inkling of the fact that the U.S. had 12,000,000 men under arms and that Germany and Japan had surrendered. They did not even know they had a President named Harry Truman. Asked one puzzled soldier: "What do you mean...
Further, it looked as if Russia would get Japan's half of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands enclosing Russia's Okhotsk Sea. Russia's position in east Asia would return to about where it was in 1904 before the Russo-Japanese war. Stalin's imperialism had redressed the Tsars' imperial ineptitude...
...Morgan's favorite Long Island mansion, which was as big as a small hotel (41 rooms and 15 baths), was about to become...
Stocky Charles A. MacGillivary, 27, is a Canadian by birth, a U.S. citizen by choice. He migrated to Boston in 1934 from his native Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, where his parents still live. He "just worked around" until war came, joined the Merchant Marine, later enlisted in the U.S. Army...
...Milt Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, weeks after V-J day, was still in a Jap spy chase on a Pacific island, but agile Artist Caniff already has figured a way to keep 'em flying: Colonel "Flip" Corkin will organize an. air police team to patrol Jap waters...