Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Wait. As best they could they kept together, some tied to a long rope like corks on a net. A demented sailor yelled that his mother had just handed him a glass of cold milk. Another pointed to an imaginary island; Seabees, he screamed, were drinking tomato juice, less than two miles away. This caused a weird mass hallucination, and nearly 100 men began swimming for the island...
Also reported safe: Major General George M. Parker Jr., Wainwright's lieutenant; Lieut. Colonel James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, commander of the marines in the heroic defense of Wake Island in December 1941. (Colonel Devereux's mother and 27 -year-old wife had died since he went to prison...
...Imperial Headquarters could have been transmitted and should have been enforced most quickly. By the Japs' own admission, their planes attacked twelve Allied transports cruising near Shikoku; Third Fleet fighters shot down snoopers aplenty. A brace of kamikaze pilots heading for the Shinto heaven crashed into Ihiya Island, near Okinawa, causing U.S. casualties...
Even before the bombings, the strain on her productive system, no match for the great western powers, must have been terrific. The strain on her island people must have been more so. All nations at war secretly long for peace, and in Japan, the markers, commemorating the dead in the Shinto shrines had increased ominously in death's rich wartime harvest...
...Others: The Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers). Cambridge, Mass.: The Society of St. Francis, Mt. Sinai, Long Island; The Brotherhood of St. Barnabas, Gibsonia, Pa.: the Order of St. Bendict, Indiana...