Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything was ready. Within the next 24 hours, Douglas MacArthur's men had crossed 90 miles of blue sea, wrenched a beachhead from the Japs on New Britain Island, pressed closer the western arm of the Allied pincers slowly closing on Rabaul, the enemy's Southwest Pacific stronghold...
...Peninsula. As the General's ships took on the cargo of invasion, the General's planes droned over the sea. For a fortnight they had pounded the southwest end of the long (300 miles), thin (60 miles at the widest), scimitar-shaped, jungle-covered, volcano-studded island that was once a German colony, then an Australian mandate until captured by the Japs...
Between 4 and 5 a.m. under a ringed half moon, with lightning stabbing the horizon, the American ships entered the narrow channel through Arawe's island screen. The wooded, sloping Jap shore lay silent, waiting...
...Kwajalein, world's largest atoll, an 80-mile string of islets, is the hub of the Marshall fortifications. It has a major airfield (on Roi Island), a seaplane anchorage, submarine facilities. In its tremendous lagoon, raiding U.S. planes (TIME, Dec. 20), have caught cruisers, carriers, seagoing merchantmen and many varieties of inter-island craft...
...Maloelap, 32 miles long, densely populated, has a naval anchorage, an airfield (on Taroa island) big enough for bombers...