Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General's party switched to the larger vessel, set an uncertain course for Sumatra. The torn page of an atlas was their only chart. Dawn found them in waters a scant half-mile from a Japanese-held island. Their food and water were nearly gone when an Allied launch picked them...
Avast, there, you sea-loving men, for here is your opportunity to launch a career in the U. S. Naval Reserve. If you lack Mil Sci or Naval Sci in your curriculum, don't let that stop you from serving your country in its greatest crisis. In this branch of the Navy, known as M-2, you will find the physical requirements less stringent and the age limits 17 to 50 years...
...rejected the idea of keeping the U.S. forces home to defend the U.S., pointing out that then no aid could be sent to China; the southwest Pacific would fall to the Japanese, who would then be able to launch large-scale attacks on the U.S. and Alaska; that Turkey, the Suez Canal, North and West Africa would fall to the Nazis; that the British and Russian efforts would be crippled. Such "foolish advice," he said, would result in a "turtle policy": "We prefer to retain the eagle as it is-flying high and striking hard...
China's War Minister Ho Ying-chin warned the world (see p. 18) that Japan would probably launch an attack on Russia within a month. In Chungking the official Central Daily News did a little goading: "Russia . . . should take the initiative and strike first, rather than wait to be struck...
...next 45 minutes were the worst I ever experienced. . . . Fifty-five men and one plucky girl piled, exhausted and soaked, with their legs bleeding from coral cuts, into a launch licensed to carry 15. Forty men gave up the struggle and turned back to the island to wait. ... If the night on the island was miserable, the one aboard the launch was indescribable. Waves rolled over the deck where we were sprawled wet and shivering, but we were still hoping we'd make Sumatra before dawn brought Japanese bombers...