Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nerve Center. A few dirt roads had once meandered through Guam's hills. Now three-and four-lane paved highways laced the island, leading from harbor to cold-storage plants, asphalt works and ammo dumps. Spread across the island were neat tent cities where marines lived between campaigns, rest camps where submarine crews breathed the fresh smell of jungles, recreation centers where Navymen played baseball, drank strictly rationed beer. Four Fleet and three Army hospitals could accommodate nearly 10,000 patients, and back & forth along the asphalt highways roll caravans of khaki ambulances with their pitiful loads...
...water. But the Zeke itself crashed on the after half of the carrier's deck, crowded with 34 loaded planes, ready to go. That kindled a raging fire. Then a Judy (dive bomber) dropped a 500-pounder through the flight deck, and crashed into the base of the island structure. The Bunker Hill's fight for life...
...signal honor. He picked up a stone and hurled it with all his strength from the low cliffs of southern Okinawa into the blue waters which lapped the shore. That stone's splash meant that the eleven-week drive by U.S. forces from the center of the island had at last reached the southern...
Debit Side. To the U.S., the cost of victory on Okinawa was steep, and to some jittery observers it might even seem staggering. But the island had been secured in 82 days, only twelve days more than the time originally estimated for its capture. In overall U.S. casualties it was indeed the bloodiest campaign of the Central and Western Pacific, but in proportion to the harm done the enemy, it was far from being the most costly. At Tarawa, where an estimated 5,000 Japs died or were captured, 1,000 Americans died and 2,000 were wounded-an overall...
...Emanuel found whisked together-is composed of the following holdings: 1) Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. (Liberators), 29.6%; 2) New York Shipbuilding Corp., 59.3%; 3) American Airlines, 24.1%; 4) Pan American Airways Corp., 9.2%; 5) American Central Mfg. Corp. (kitchen sinks and cabinets), 60.8%; 6) Roosevelt Field Inc. (on Long Island), 20%; 7) American Propeller Corp., 100%; 8) Lycoming Division (small aircraft motors), 100% ; 9) Spencer Heater Division, 100%; 10) Republic Aircraft Products Division...