Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of Kuala Lumpur was announced coincident with the establishment of a new line 170 miles north of Singapore. Then that line crumbled. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Japanese bombers in 50-to 125-plane batches pounded the city of Singapore. A drenching tropical rain poured down. There was only one island of hope in the dampness: the Aussies were moving up to fight...
...might be that there was one more withdrawal left in the British bag of tricks, even now that the Aussies had begun to fight. But beyond that there could be no more: in the last 50 miles north of the island are the water reservoirs of the city. These have to be held. Hong Kong eventually fell for lack of water. Either the Aussies must give the Jap his jippo above those reservoirs, or Singapore would catch the Japanese for hell...
...Philippines the Jap was willing to pay dearly. So last week, the sixth of the Battle of Luzon, he lashed fiercely at General Douglas MacArthur's tough little Army. MacArthur's men, holed up in the mountain-wild Bataan peninsula with an anchor below on the island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay, gave better than they received...
Twelve hours out of New York, 60 miles off Long Island's fingerlike north tip at Montauk Point, the Panamanian tanker Norness pressed toward Halifax. She carried 10,000 tons of fuel oil and a 40-man Scandinavian crew...
...weeks Axis planes have kept up a concentrated bombing effort on Malta that has no parallel in this war. Operating 24 hours a day, Axis high-level and dive-bombers have raided the island over 150 times since Jan. 1. As many as 17 alarms have occurred in 24 hours...