Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened again. San Francisco had a blackout, and the Army announced that two squadrons of 15 enemy planes each from a carrier off the coast had flown inland over California soil near San Jose. One squadron flew south and vanished, the second flew northward past San Francisco and Mare Island...
...dawn the day before, the Japanese had attacked savagely all along the whole great U.S. island-bridge which stretches to the Orient...
Obvious to onlookers on the Honolulu hills was the fact that Pearl Harbor was being hit hard. From the Navy's plane base on Ford Island (also known as Luke Field), in the middle of the harbor, clouds of smoke ascended. One citizen who was driving past the naval base saw the first bomb fall on Ford Island. Said he: "It must have been a big one. I saw two planes dive over the mountains and down to the water and let loose torpedoes at a naval ship. This warship was attacked again & again. I also saw what looked like...
...White House thus far has acknowledge the loss of one "old battleship" and a destroyer, serious damage to "several" other warships, destruction of many planes and 3000 casualties 1500 dead and 1500 wounded on the Island of Oahuy, alone...
Navy communique No. 2 and the Wake garrison has defended that tiny South Pacific island against four separate attacks in the last 48 hours by enemy aircraft and one by naval unite five attacks...