Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieutenant Bougainville Island...
...Passage to Marseille" starring Humbrey Bogart is a story of a French freighter making its way through the Caribbean bound for Marseille. It picks up five men adrift on a raft, who later confide to a Captain Freycnet(Claude Rains) that they are fugitives from Devils Island, all of them French patriots sworn o return to France and fight the Boche. The leader of the five is Matrac (Bogart) who was the victim of a trumped-up charge of murder and treason, in politically upset pre-war France...
Britain's egg shortage was really serious, reported Pfc. William J. Rozak in a letter home. He could not get a one for breakfast. In Rhode Island his mother promptly bought a dozen, dipped them in paraffin, packed them in sawdust, mailed them across the Atlantic. Last week Egg-Lover Rozak gratefully acknowledged a dozen old-fashioned breakfasts: "Not a one was broken...
...tough fight. It would be rugged until the last Jap was off Los Negros. But the main objectives had been captured. Momote airfield, swiftly taken, had been rehabilitated and U.S. fighter craft were operating from its strip in support of forward units. Jap shore batteries on nearby Manus Island had been silenced by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's navy and supply-burdened LSTs were unloading without enemy interference. One of the first Navy shipments: fresh beef to supplement the Army's K-rations...
Plowing through icy Arctic waters, the Liberty ship Chief Washakie was 45 miles off Unalaska Island on the blustery night of last Dec. 10. At 10:22 her master was startled out of a sound sleep by a sound "like cannon fire"; the Washakie had split her sides open. Held together by her double bottom, the ship limped into Makushin Bay for temporary repairs, then headed for Dutch Harbor 48 miles away...