Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese battleship Haruna, with 980 or more officers and men aboard, was bombed, set afire and sunk off Luzon Island by American Army bombers...
...Japanese cruiser and a destroyer were sunk by air action by the American Marine garrison furiously defending Wake Island, which was still under attack...
...Luzon, main Philippine island, another Japanese attempt to raid Manila by air was repulsed and at Lingayen, 110 miles north of Manila, a Japanese landing force was being exterminated with American troops in "complete control" of the situation...
...Army spokesman at Manila said that all indications pointed to a heavy enemy attack on northern Luzon with land troops supplemented by a naval contingent. Luzon is the island upon which Manila is located...
...tons) which can clip along at 17 knots. The U.S. has taken over seven of the 18 C-3s built to date, to convert into small aircraft carriers for the Navy and Great Britain. Conversion takes only about four months. One of the C-3s, now the U.S.S. Long Island (see cut), is already...