Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night this week Associated Press Photographer Herbert White was sound asleep on the little Dutch island of Aruba, just off the Venezuelan Coast. At 1:30 a.m. an explosion bowled him out of bed. Photographer White's routine assignment, covering a routine inspection trip by the U.S. Army's Lieut. General Frank Andrews, had turned into an eyewitness view of the first Axis shells to land on the soil of the Americas...
...mile offshore a submarine lay on the surface, pouring shells at the island. Already two tankers in the harbor were on fire; flaming oil spread over the water. Said Photographer White: "The harbor scene was like a raging forest fire right in your own front yard. . . . The blaze was shooting up high over the waterfront. . . . I could see the decks of [one] ship as a mass of flames...
...reconnaissance patrols Captain Wermuth, from a foxhole, spotted a long line of Japanese crossing a ridge. "I worked them over with my tommy gun," said he, "and got at least 30 like ducks in a Coney Island shooting gallery." Attracted by the shooting, five Filipino scouts rushed to the scene, helped Arthur Wermuth polish off "50 or 60" more of the enemy party...
...some 700 men & women on the rugged island of Fernando de Noronha, far out in the South Atlantic, the fortunes of World War II last week brought hope of excitement, if not of freedom. Brazil announced that she was converting her island prison into an island fortress...
...more difficult to escape from than famed Devil's Island, Fernando de Noronha houses murderers and other felons from the State of Pernambuco, political prisoners from all Brazil. Between the island and Natal, on the bulge of South America, lie some 225 miles of ocean. Few prisoners ever escape, for authorities see to it that there is little wood for building boats or dugouts...