Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survivors of the 9,000 American troops and 27,000 Filipinos fell into the hands of the Jap-all of them U.S. soldiers and U.S. losses. Alongside troops from the mainland, Tagalog and Moro and Igorot had fought just as bravely, died just as tight-lipped and with just as little fuss as their white comrades. It took that fighting and those deaths to make the U.S. know that the men from the Islands were their brothers and their equals...
...Japanese invaded India. When their warships and planes struck in the Bay of Bengal, they struck as directly at the troubled mainland as if their troops had landed in Calcutta...
...British may be better stocked with aircraft in India than in Burma, but it also acutely reminded the Allies that every mile of the Japanese advance in Burma was also an advance on India. As a further reminder the Japanese next day bombed two towns on India's mainland. Britain and the U.S. had very little time left for Sir Stafford Cripps's war of wits and good will in New Delhi, even to move up the air reinforcements which alone could save Burma, the Bay of Bengal's approaches to India, and one of the last...
Were they groggy? U.S. and Australian bombers continued to destroy their shipping, planes and troops in the islands off northern Australia. Toward the mainland, the Japanese last week made no moves except sporadic, ineffectual air raids on the north coast...
Britain's liveliest advocate of a second front is tall, bushy-haired Left-Winger Frank Owen, editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard.* Last week he wrote: "Who . . . can go on calculating that in 1943 we can invade the European mainland? The entire equation will have been transformed and totally against us. The best that we could hope for then would be a whole cycle of campaigns to force the entrenched enemy out of a still vaster central fortress...