Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearly judged. In all their expansion to the south and west-from Wake to Burma and from the Solomons to Luzon-the Japanese have probably not used more than 200,000 men, while China and Siberia have tied up perhaps 1,200,000. On many an island the Japanese stationed only suicide crews, whose sole mission was to get what information they could...
...warfare. And in the Aleutians, in the New Guinea area and in the Solomons the Japs were taking a course in the cost of long communication lines: about 344 planes lost, 19 ships sunk, 21 damaged since Aug. 1. The Japanese could put a few hundred men on an island. Supplying and reinforcing them was another matter. Wake Island is farther from Tokyo than it is from Honolulu; Kiska is about 1,000 miles from any known Jap supply base. And the list of Japanese surprise possibilities was fast running out. This was no time for optimism...
...last week the Navy and Marines were too busy fighting for their lives on Guadalcanal Island to brood over two-month-old losses. During the week they sank a Jap destroyer, damaged two cruisers and four other ships, shot down seven more planes. Totals since Aug. 7:38 ships damaged or sunk,* 245 planes shot down...
...Wake Island (Brian Donlevy, Albert Dekker, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix; TIME, Sept...
...story of the U.S. today-a kind of Everyman in khaki. He has told of young Quizz West (William Prince), a farm boy who leaves his girl (Mary Rolfe) and his family to become a soldier. Quizz goes to training camp and then to war, and, on a tiny island in the Pacific, is part of a gallant, malaria-ridden remnant that face war's horror, enact its heroism and succumb to its fate...