Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand men-English, Scottish, Canadian, Chinese, and Indian troops, civilian volunteers-faced two full Japanese divisions (30,000 or more). The first Japanese attack pierced the mainland line within 24 hours. Within five days the Japanese penned the outnumbered British on the island, demanded surrender, were refused...
Japanese artillery lined the mainland shore, pumped streams of shell into island positions. One by one British batteries went silent, British searchlights winked out. In the first eight days 45 air raids pocked British positions with terrifying accuracy. On Dec. 18 the Japanese burst across to the island itself. The British fought on. As food, water and ammunition ran short, they charged Japanese positions to certain death from machine guns. The Japanese established themselves in the eastern corner of the island, pressed on. Soon they held three of Hong Kong's reservoirs. Under their bombardments the island...
...night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain. But at dawn they hove to off the salmon-pink igneous rockland of St. Pierre & Miquelon, last island remnants of the once-great French Empire in North America...
...Other rumors held that Germany's likeliest next move was an attack on the island of Malta, Britain's commanding base in the Mediterranean. German-Italian air raids on Malta had multiplied, and it was remembered that the Nazis had perfected the parachute technique of island attack in Crete...
...training centers of the Commission dot the seaboard on both coasts. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Hoffman Island, N.Y., Port Hueneme, Calif., are schools for apprentices, aged between 18 and 23, where would-be mariners do a seven-month hitch learning the rudiments of their trade. Students are paid $21 a month. Experienced able-bodied seamen and oilers get paid $72.50 to $82.50 a month while brushing up on their knowledge. In charge of all training is the U.S. Coast Guard...