Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slicing the islands' supply line from Pearl Harbor west, by heavy attacks on Philippine airfields, by plain wear & tear on the islands' limited aircraft equipment, Japan had won the first requisite of victory: command of the air. Overwhelming in numbers, the Jap flailed at the U.S. positions with rifle, machine gun, tank and plane, careless of his losses. Bitterly, savagely and calculatingly, the tall men from the U.S. and the short men from the island fought back. It was a battle of churning movement: swift slashes of armored cars and men in trucks, ceaseless slamming of artillery, swiftly...
...heavy bombers smashed all but one of the 3-in. anti-aircraft batteries, smeared the power plant, fired the oil stores. The next day Wake reported that several enemy ships and a transport were standing off the island. What was left of the 3-inchers blasted away. Two destroyers were put out of action...
...December (the 7th on the U.S. side of the International Date Line) the little band of 378 sea-soldiers had been under repeated Jap attack. Frying in the Pacific sun on their desolate four-mile-long atoll they had seen a Jap cruiser and two destroyers standing off the island with the signal "Surrender" flapping gaily from their signal halyards...
...assault that had told them the show was on. Bantam (5 ft. 5 in.) Major James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, the detachment commander, returned a Marine's answer: "Come and get us." The Jap got another answer. Somehow, either by bombardment from the four fighter planes still on the island (eight had been smashed by the enemy) or by fire from his six 5-in. guns, little Jimmie Devereux sank the cruiser and one of the destroyers. He reported it tersely to Honolulu. Later he reported his men had sunk...
...adopted East-West game the following Saturday, Sugar Bowl week includes a track meet (exhibiting the country's top-notchers from Leslie MacMitchell down), tennis matches featuring Don McNeill, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder and other top-ten amateurs, a basketball game between Tennessee (Southeastern Conference champions) and Long Island University (Madison Square Garden champions), boxing matches, crew races and a sailing regatta on Lake Pontchartrain. Months ago, New Orleans hotels were already turning down reservations for Sugar Bowl week. Last week beds were being set up in Turkish baths...