Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, his mother and father, his 19-months-old daughter, whom he had not seen since last August, his five-weeks-old son, whom he had never seen. There also were cheering neighbors, U.S. flags fluttering in the doorway of his apartment house in Long Island City-and the press...
...Vichy relations were all over but the shooting. Not so the State Department. U.S. diplomats thought up a new device to put Laval on the spot. One morning last week Rear Admiral John H. Hoover and State Department's Samuel Reber landed at Vichy's Caribbean island of Martinique, went straight to the offices of bearded Admiral Georges Robert, High Commissioner of Vichy's possessions in the area (Martinique, sister island Guadeloupe and French Guiana...
Thus Navy task missions out of Honolulu have become hell-for-leather, slam-bang affairs planned with the stealthy calculation of Indian raids, and executed with the bludgeon force of gang assassinations. For this kind of operation, well executed in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and in the assault on Marcus Island only 1,200 miles from Tokyo, the U.S. public could thank Planner Nimitz...
...vaulting strategy of the Axis, the Madagascar setback meant more than the loss of the world's fourth largest* island, with its resources in agriculture and minerals. It meant postponement of the Axis' principal aim: control of the seas. As long as the United Nations had that control, uninterrupted around the perimeter of the world, the best the Axis could win would be a Germanized Europe. Without that control, the Jap's dream of a Greater New Order in East Asia was cobwebs and moonshine...
...powerful sentinel athwart the vital supply line that feeds the United Nations salient separating Jap from German. In ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope go planes and tanks and men to fight, from Egypt to Calcutta. They pass within range of Madagascar's bases. North of the island, aircraft can be flown across the Indian Ocean to Australia or Ceylon. And in Madagascar's fields and harbors, planes and ships can be refueled and repaired...