Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south is Ceylon, only 50 miles from the Indian mainland, across a string of partially submerged sandspits called "Adam's Bridge." Once in Ceylon, holding its naval base at Trincomalee and the great commercial port of Colombo, the Japs need not cross Adam's Bridge. For they would then have the Bay of Bengal. If they dominate its routes to Calcutta and Madras, the Japs will be very near to having India...
Without pursuit planes, there was not much for the defenders to do about it except to keep the raiders high. From their foxholes on the mainland, infantry soldiers kept patrols out in no man's land to be sure that "Tojo" was keeping quiet. Probably in search of prisoners and information, a U.S. force plowed into the Jap lines, and "Skinny" Wainwright was able to report a successful brush...
...This was, evidently, a rumor which had been carried over to the mainland by evacuees from Hawaii...
...open to flank attacks. To conquer Cyprus, the Axis planes would be farther away (200 miles) from land bases than in last year's attack on Crete. Even if British fighter planes were chased off Cyprus bases, there were other fields only 66 miles away on the Syrian mainland...
...finest torso-bearers (Betty Grable & Victor Mature) down on one of the lesser Hawaiian islands, a curious place, half paradise, half fruit stand. There blonde Miss Grable, who is especially well organized for paradisal parts, doffs the sweater she has lived in at school on the U.S. mainland and resumes her role as the community's No. 1 lei girl...