Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial's first week came the first official admission of a story long circulated in Washington and New York: that a Coast Guardsman had surprised the four saboteurs who landed on Long Island's Amagansett Beach; that, after they tried to bribe him into silence, he gave the alarm which put the FBI on the saboteurs' trail. The Coast Guardsman, young, dimpled Coxswain Jack Culley, (see cut) told his story at the trial...
...night a raid force of the King's African Rifles, marines and commando units slipped out of Madagascar's Diego Suarez, by next nightfall were within range of Vichy's island of Mayotte in the channel. After dark they landed, took Mayotte without opposition or casualties, found radio station and all else intact...
...forces number somewhere near 200,000, spread through most of Serbia, Montenegro and part of Croatia-an island surrounded by the hostile forces of Germany, Italy and their satellites. For months at a time little is heard from Yugoslavia's private second front, and this arouses fear that resistance is ending. But last week reports from southeast Europe told of widened Yugoslav operations that spread even across the Croat frontier into Italy. South of Zagreb fighting was in progress for two communications centers, while in Serbia Mihailovich's forces had repulsed an onslaught by one German, one Bulgarian...
...Order. At Coney Island, lost children, who used to be taken to the police station and treated to ice cream, were taken to a special vanilla-colored, chocolate-trimmed "ice-cream bungalow," where they got nothing...
...Unvanquished never mentions World War II at all. It is about those early desperate months when the American Revolution faced defeat and disintegration. The book begins with America's Dunkirk, the retreat across Manhattan's East River that saved the Continental Army after the Battle of Long Island. It ends with Washington's recrossing of the Delaware-a prototype of the Commando raids...