Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Analyzing the states' cumbersome absentee-voting methods, he pointed out that only 17 states have scheduled legislative sessions to simplify these procedures. The solution, said the President, is a federal ballot, as provided in the bills sponsored in the Senate by Illinois' Scott Lucas and Rhode Island's Theodore Green, and in the House by Texas' handsome young (29) Eugene Worley, a Navy lieutenant commander who has seen service in the South Pacific...
...birds had arrived in the morning. On nearby Kwajalein, Jaluit, Maloelap, little bandy-legged men squinted at the Pacific sky and ran for cover. Even over the island of Eniwetok, furthest west of all the Marshalls, the carrier-based planes arrived (see map, p. 19). The atolls shuddered under the impact of bomb upon bursting bomb and presently the screech and clump of shells added to the din and terror. Out of sight, over the horizon, surface ships had joined the carriers and were bringing the little men's islands under naval gunfire. Long awaited, long expected...
...Island by Island. Whatever the objective of the next major blow in the Pacific, one thing is certain: the Navy has no present hope of drawing the Jap Fleet into conclusive combat, of destroying it and thus ending the Pacific war. In the central Pacific, Admiral Chester Nimitz has settled down to island-hopping...
...apparently, does it care to concentrate on MacArthur's Southwest Pacific route. The Navy must secure bases in its rear as it moves. For the Pacific is dotted with unsinkable Jap airplane carriers and sub bases which cannot be left in the rear of an invading convoy. These island carrier-bases must be 1) neutralized or 2) taken...
...have certain theories we go by. After that there is the Jesus factor - the unpredictable." Each new objective has its peculiar problem. The Marshall Islands differ from Guadalcanal, which is an 80-mile long island with a great jungle-covered spine and coconut groves, jungles and grassy flatlands along its shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless...