Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seed of Hate. To Bull Halsey, the assault was the fulfillment of two longstanding ambitions. Ever since Dec. 7, 1941, he had been obsessed with the desire to hit Japan. That morning, four years ago, as planes flying from his flagship Enterprise to Ford Island were attacked by Zeros, Halsey exploded: "My God, they're shooting at my own boys! Tell Kimmel." Then it dawned on him: Kimmel already knew, and this was war. Halsey, as senior officer afloat, soon got an order to take command of all U.S. warships then at sea in the Pacific...
...early as March 4, 1942, the Bull (it was "Raider" Halsey then) drove with one carrier, the Enterprise, to within a thousand miles of Tokyo, and sent her planes to bomb tiny Marcus Island. Six weeks later he stood on the same carrier's flag bridge and watched Lieut. Colonel (now Lieut. General) Jimmy Doolittle's ill-fated B-25s fly off the Hornet to carry to Tokyo the first token...
...marines who took Iwo Jima last March called the eight-square-mile volcanic island a beachhead in hell. Sulfur fumes belched from fissures in the steaming rocks. Rumbling noises echoed from the bowels of the harsh, scarred earth. Ugly Iwo cost 22,000 casualties, including 5,445 killed...
...last week 1,400 of the Superforts (carrying 15,400 airmen) had made emergency landings on Iwo's runways. Lieut. Alvin Beck of Fort Wayne had flown eleven missions and landed on Iwo five times. Said Lieut. Don Midlam of Lima, Ohio: "Whenever I land on this island, I thank God, and the men who fought...
Last week, at New York Randall's Island Stadium, he stretched his bowlegs in the National A.A.U. Championships...