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Word: makalapa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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Outwardly, there was nothing to indicate that June 1, 1943 was an auspicious day for naval air forces and a turning point in the Pacific War. But on that day high-ranking officers, one after another, trooped out on the top "deck" of the concrete headquarters building at Makalapa, overlooking Pearl Harbor, focused their binoculars on a grey shape across the loch, by Ford Island. The Essex, first of America's post-Pearl Harbor battle carriers, had arrived to take her place in the battle line. Soon her sister ship, now named Yorktown instead of Bon Homme Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mobile Might | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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