Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North all the watery miles to Alaska the Navy made a sudden smashing raid on the Jap-held Aleutian island of Kiska...
Thus, two months after the spies had landed on Long Island and Florida beaches, one month after their trial began, ended the biggest spy case in U.S. history. The U.S. still knew less about the case than about any one of its daily, tawdry crimes of passion. The record was sealed until after...
Last week this new advantage was exploited. A Flying Fortress made an observation flight over Wake, cruising back & forth over the island taking pictures. At about the same time as the Solomon Islands attack, U.S. surface ships moved in and bombarded Jap vessels and shore installations at Kiska. When the attack came in the South Pacific the Jap obviously could not be sure what to expect...
Around Tulagi, the bull's-eye, are other rings of the Navy's target. Most important of them passes through the island of Guadalcanal, said to be the only spot on the Solomons where a big system of air-dromes could be established. For the rest, the Solomons are precipitously mountainous (highest peak 10,000 feet), bordered with miasmic mangrove swamps, inhabited by ebony-black natives with an incurable habit of roasting and eating white visitors...
...naval officer was modest, soft-spoken Captain Edward Ellsberg, salvager of the submarine S-51 off Block Island in 1926. Ellsberg had arrived in Massaua in March. Principal item of wreckage in the harbor which Allied officials were anxious to recover was a floating dock capable of handling 10,000-ton cruisers. The British said recovery was impossible. But 50-year-old Captain Ellsberg put on a diving suit and took a look. The dock, he discovered, had eight watertight compartments, into each of which the Italians had dropped a 200-lb. bomb. Undiscouraged, Ellsberg went to work with meager...