Word: kwajaleins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stoically ignored it all, the Navy people called upon the scientists. The scientists tried filching the gooneys' eggs. The birds wailed like banshees at the egg snatchers, then promptly laid some more. In desperation, the Navy packed some gooneys into planes, hauled them to far-off Guam, to Kwajalein, to northern Japan, even to Puget Sound-4,000 miles away. Unerringly, the gooneys, thoughtfully marked with a shocking-pink head dye for identincation, flew back to Midway. And the Navy learned that nothing smells up a plane more pungently than a load of airsick gooneys...
Interspersing action with writing, he worked on the first volume about the Atlantic, while assistants covered the fighting at Kwajalein and Eniwetok. Returning to the Pacific to observe the "breaking of the Bismarcks barrier," he sent an assistant to the Mediterranean to report on the landing at Anzio. Still in the spring of '44, Morison took part in the Saipan and Guam landings, as an assistant was on hand for D-Day. Another assistant observed the action in Leyte Gulf...
...mainland, which have been following the satellite for a year, can calculate Vanguard's position in space at the instant when it was observed from the island. From this information the position of the island can be charted. As a result, points on Wake, Guam and Kwajalein have been found to be almost one mile out of position. The islands are being replotted with a maximum possible error of less than...
...midst of the sea shells and pressed plants and a vast collection of postage stamps, friends found a well-creased, patently cherished letter from Naval Intelligence thanking the little old lady from Oberlin for her role in the successful wartime invasions of the islands Tarawa, Makin and Kwajalein...
Last week, with the model island village ready for occupation, a U.S. Navy LST set sail from Kwajalein loaded to the scuppers with happy homeward-bound Rongelapese. They were a far cry from the worried souls who three years ago had called themselves "the poisoned people." Good news travels fast, and because of what the Navy and the AEC had done for their atoll, many a Rongelapese who left his home long before the H-bomb blast occurred had decided to return to it. Since island law provides that every member of a Rongelap family, whether living there...