Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biggest island of freedom in Europe is the wild mountainous triangle of old Serbia dominated by General Draja Mihailovich. The Yugoslavs fight in a bumptiously Balkan way: in separate groups divided by ancient hates. Thus, within Mihailovich's domain operates a separate force directed by the Yugoslav Communist Party...
...Winston Churchill conferred with the King on the question of a second front. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden admitted that an overwhelming majority of Britons wanted an offensive in Europe; he promised that history would not be able to describe the British as "a little, timid people, sheltering on our island." But these moves apparently were not enough...
...most of the U. S. troops now here, New Guinea was just a forgotten name in a geography book. Probably one in a hundred remembered that New Guinea is the second largest island in the world (after Greenland...
Died. Mrs. James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, 27, wife of Wake Island's defender, U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel ("Send us more Japs") Devereux; of diabetes; in Washington, D.C. An Army daughter (of Colonel John P. Welch, in command of the Quartermaster Depot at Richmond, Va.), pretty Mrs. Devereux's illness had apparently been aggravated by worry over the fate of her husband, last reported in a Shanghai prison camp. Orphaned for the duration was Son Patrick Devereux...
...latest turn in British tactics is shown in an exciting sequence of Commandos training. One Commando attack is shown in naming detail: the destruction of fuel dumps on Norway's Lofoten Islands. This is the most significant fact about New Soldiers. For this picture, the latest in the Canadian Government Film Unit's World in Action series, talks solely in terms of attack. The first of the series (Churchill's Island), made over a year ago, spoke only of defense...