Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to Tokyo, a scouting task force of U.S. cruisers and destroyers was attacked by the Japs south of Santa Isabel Island-up the slot from Guadalcanal. The Japs claimed a cruiser and a destroyer...
After the Rennell Island action, the Tokyo radio said: "It is plain that the U.S. can never regain her sea strength." At week's end Secretary Knox said that U.S. losses had been "minor in everything . . . moderate . . . nothing significant." Apparently no battleship was lost, and probably not much in the way of cruisers or destroyers. Even the Tokyo radio changed its tune: it said that the U.S. had ten battleships, ten aircraft carriers and 20 heavy cruisers in the Solomons area, that the Japanese fleet was "numerically inferior...
...Battle of Guadalcanal is over. After six months of fighting the last Japanese on the island is either dead or evacuated...
...opposite shore. How they got there was not explained. If by land, they would have had to march overland more than 40 miles, through the harshest kind of mountains and jungle. It was possible they had come by sea, in the transports the Japs attacked off Rennell Island. However they got there, their arrival put the Japs...
...bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments of men for those of nature as the steamer saluted the shores of La Grande Jatte, the island where bustled Parisian Mesdames once gathered for gaiety on sun-drenched meadows...