Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turner commanded the task forces of occupation in the first U.S. attacks in the Solomons, received the Distinguished Service Medal for it. "If you want something tough done, call on Turner," is a Navy adage, one reason why he was selected to coordinate sea, air and land forces in island warfare. He foresaw the importance of submarines in a U.S.-Japanese war, was a prophet of raiding warfare. Before the attack, at his Guadalcanal headquarters (where his staff includes a Marine colonel, a Navy captain, an Army major), he saw everyone from PT-boat skippers to major generals...
...months after the Jap came, Marist Father Albert Lebel still served on Bougainville Island. Once he talked his way ashore from a Jap destroyer by arguing that he was doing no harm and would be only another internee to feed.* Back at his coastal mission, Father Lebel used both brass and stealth to help more than 70 nuns, priests and others to escape from the island. Only on orders from his bishop and military authorities did he finally leave himself...
...first attack a sizable task force cruised offshore, pouring round after round of high explosive on the rocky island. No answering flashes came from the shore batteries. Perhaps the Japs, anticipating invasion, did not want to give away their guns' location. Perhaps U.S. battleships which supported the Attu landings were still with the Aleutian fleet; their 14-in. guns would outrange the Jap batteries. But the second shelling, by a single smaller warship, roused the enemy to reply. Results: to the warship, no damage; to the Japs, gun positions revealed. A third shelling brought no reply...
Fascism, in its 21st year, faced its most dreaded hour. In Sicily the Allied armies were overrunning not a colony, not an island outpost, but the second largest of Italy's regioni. In a sense, they were probing the accumulated rot under the Fascist house...
...rallied one segment of his countrymen to Fascism's bedraggled banner. A fierce, choleric people, once given to brigandage and secret societies like the Maffia, the Sicilians did not readily take to Fascism. Italy's best haters, they have hated above all the Germans on their island soil...