Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategic conquest of New Guinea, world's second largest island,* was completed last week by General Douglas MacArthur...
...most economical of World War II. The first stages had been slow and costly: a heartrending series of marches through jungles and over mountains to battle at Buna, Gona, Sanananda, Salamaua, Lae. But while the campaign to secure a foothold on one tip of the great island was being fought the hard way, a better, smarter war was being planned...
From then on, the pattern was so consistent that even the beleagured Jap commanding the Second Army should have been able to figure it out: Wakde Island-on May 17; Biak on May 27; Noemfoor on July 2. But the Jap apparently persisted in the conviction that MacArthur's next move would be against Second Army headquarters at Manokwari...
Lieut. General Mark Clark, fighting forward in Italy with his Fifth Army, disclosed his peacetime ambition: to retire to Puget Sound's Camano Island and "fish for the rest of my life...
...beach waded out into the surf to meet it. In the strangely soft voice of a man whose vocal cords have not been used for months, he told his story. He was the last man of the Guam garrison and he had hidden on the island until the fleet came back again...