Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adriatic, Allied and Partisan forces raided the Yugoslav island of Brac, wiping out a German garrison...
...other side of the world, Japan felt the weight of U.S. power as a big naval task force struck by sea & air into the Marianas Islands, while heavy bombers from the South Pacific area attacked enemy bases in the Carolines. On Biak Island, a long step back toward the conquered Philippines, U.S. troops captured one key airfield, were pressing the Japs back...
Comeback at Biak. Some 1400 miles south of Guam, General Douglas Mac- Arthur's last important island hop in his leapfrogging New Guinea campaign was progressing-but it was no walkover. Sixth Army infantrymen had been all but stalled in their drive along the coastal flats of Biak Island in the Schouten group, aimed at the capture of three airfields within heavy-bomber range of the Philippines. They had to fall back, call for reinforcements, amend their tactics. Last week they drove inland, outflanked the Japs, captured Mokmer airfield...
...nostalgic as its cowboy songs, as lusty as a. G.I. bull session. (Chesty brunette to castaway sailor: "I'm going to give you something you haven't had for a loong time." Sailor: "You mean-there's a bottle of ice-cold beer on this island?") On the Road. At one bomber base a number of planes had just been lost when the show arrived. "The girls-Red Cross girls and nurses-came into the theater crying, and some of the fellows were drunk. But when we got through they were laughing, and we heard that they...
...their $86,210, Long Beachers get a repertory of good old-fashioned music. They also get the skilled elbow-waving of a veteran bandmaster named B. (for Benjamin) A. (for Albert) Rolfe, whose red face, wheezing voice and massive (230 Ib.) figure have become as indigenous to the Long Island landscape as the oil wells atop Signal Hill. A man who started as an infant-prodigy cornetist and went on to conduct radio's Lucky Strike dance orchestra, Rolfe took over the Long Beach Band last year when its founder, an oldtime Sousa (cornet) soloist named Herbert Lincoln Clarke...