Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...island Coordinator of Federal Agencies instead of a more dictatorial Commissioner General...
Edited straight into the wastebasket was a Joint Advisory Council (containing Puerto Rican members) to initiate changes in the island's political status. The subcommittee stood stanchly on its assertion that the U.S. Congress must "determine for itself at the proper time . . . the ultimate political destiny of the Island." The Puerto Rican politicos cried in pain. Forthwith, the political campaign began. The great popular cause between now and the November Puerto Rican elections would be complete self-government, so far as the politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed...
Other details of the Navy's slam-bang operation would have to wait. But one other fact was clear at week's end: the Navy had shown Japan that no longer is any island base beyond the striking range of Spruance's Central Pacific fleet. The overfeared power of land-based air power had been set aside by greater air power from...
Against the 1,500 by 2,000 yd. triangular island of Engebi, Harry Hill sent the 22nd Marines, commanded by Colonel John T. Walker of Texas. Against cigar-shaped Eniwetok he sent men of the 106th Infantry (Brooklyn National Guard troops) of Colonel Russell G. Ayers, plus perhaps one battalion of Marines...
...Engebi the Marines scored one of their quickest victories: six hours and five minutes after they had landed, following 1,000 tons of naval bombardment, the island was theirs...