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Word: islanded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Party at Arawe | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Party at Arawe | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Party at Arawe | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Softening the Marshalls | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...Maloelap, 32 miles long, densely populated, has a naval anchorage, an airfield (on Taroa island) big enough for bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Softening the Marshalls | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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