Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then suddenly the soldiers saw bodies-and they were not all Japanese bodies. The advancing troops ran into a main defense position, a line drawn across the island just north of Naha. From concrete pillboxes, hillside caves and ravines, murderous machine-gun fire raked their lines. The heaviest concentration of Japanese artillery of the Pacific war backed up the small arms. While marines in the north continued to gain 2,000 and 3,000 yards a day against little opposition, the soldiers were slowed to 200-yard jumps...
Belatedly the island empire awoke to its peril. With Buckner on Okinawa, even medium U.S. bombers could soon roam Japanese skies. Communications with China would be endangered. The homeland itself faced invasion. In Japanese, "Okinawa" means "Rope off in the Sea"; in any language, it now spelled doom...
...Island of Thought. Overriding every G.I. discovery was the phenomenon of the people: they had no conception of the degree to which they had been thrust beyond the pale of the human race. Under Nazi rule, Germany had become an island of thought completely segregated from the outside world...
...Rhode Island's Camp Endicott, Jim ("Iron Mike") Rafferty ended a perfect, ten-race season (including three wins over Sweden's Gunder Hagg) by winning the three-quarter-mile special. He watched bespectacled Haakon Lidman jack up Sweden's sagging track reputation by lowering the 15.8 world record for the 110-meter high hurdles by 1.4 seconds...
Amid the potato fields of Long Island, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co. last week sprouted the best production record of the war. In March, Grumman turned out 658 Navy fighting planes, most ever turned out in one month by a single U.S. plane plant. Previous record holder: North American Aviation Inc., with 571 Mustang fighters in January...