Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woodlark and on tiny Kiriwina Island in the Trobriand group, the Americans found no Japs. Ahead was hard work to establish camps and airplane landing strips, but the soldiers also had time to meet the friendly natives. Soon each soldier had an island price list, computed in terms of the stinking twist tobacco which serves for currency (one grass skirt, two or three sticks; one turtle, two sticks...
...Rendova and New Georgia. Advance units of marines, had already landed on New Georgia and scouted Jap positions. On the night of attack, Navy task forces probed deep into Jap waters, shelling Jap airdromes and coastal positions on the southern tip of Bougainville and at Vila on the island of Kolombangara. A small party also landed on one of the palmy little islands guarding Rendova Harbor...
...from these last strongholds. But instead of columns of Japanese infantry moving along unprotected footpaths amidst rice paddies, they faced the superiority of Japanese weapons. The Chinese infantry filtered in through the pillboxes to Owchihkow and fought in the city's streets. But Japanese artillery based on an island in the river pounded them brutally, while fresh Japanese reinforcements made way to aid the garrison. At week's end the Japanese artillery and pillboxes dominated the action. Against them the Chinese were still throwing rifle-armed infantrymen...
...report had General Giraud stopping in Martinique before his arrival in America. The pro-Vichy master of the French Caribbean island, cagey, white-goateed Admiral Georges Robert, had asked the U.S. "to fix the terms" for a change in the island's authority. To Martinique for negotiations hurried U.S. Vice Admiral John H. Hoover, commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier. After three years of jealous, stubborn defiance, cantankerous Robert seemed ready to turn over his tiny domain, with its gold, its barnacled ships and its rebellious, starving inhabitants, to the rule of the Committee of Liberation in North Africa...
...trumps of war today for the Allies: some 1,500,000 men whose fighting qualities are superb, despite their lack of mechanized training and equipment; and, most desirous of all, passage for the Allied troops through Turkey if they seek to go by land, protection for their sea-and-island flank if their offensive is seaborne...