Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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October: Biggest carrier raid to date (Wake Island) included the Essex, the new Lexington and Yorktown, and three light flattops...
There was no such letup at Okinawa, dearly bought eyrie of the Far East Air Forces. General George C. Kenney sent B-24s to burn Kurume, on Kyushu Island; later waves turned aside to secondary targets near...
Captain John survived the Liscome Bay's sinking off Makin Island in late 1943, Captain Henry, only non-flyer among the Annapolis-trained brothers, commanded a destroyer division, participating in many a Pacific raid. Lieut. Commander Quentin, youngest (27) of the five, bosses a fighter squadron aboard a Pacific carrier...
...family's brightest stars were Lieut. Commander Richard and Commander Charles. Charles Crommelin, class of '31, won a D.F.C. over Marcus Island in September 1943, won another by leading the Yorktown's air group during the Gilberts invasion. That was when he brought his plane back despite 200 wounds, then insisted on debarking from the ambulance and visiting the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club "to show those kids it's not so tough to be shot up." Richard Crommelin, '28, had started gathering medals even earlier: a Navy Cross for the Coral Sea, another...
Charles A. Lindbergh, who likes to live alone and finds living on an island the best way, bought land on four islands off the Connecticut shore, near Darien. Conn. Former Lindbergh island homes: one off Brittany's coast, another off Massachusetts (Martha's Vineyard). Included: 36-acres of oyster-beds...