Word: makin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific. The Navy threw its biggest offensive force of the war into attacks on Makin, Tarawa and Abemama atolls in the Central Pacific...
...Tarawa, Makin and Abemama, tiny pin points of coral and sand, Admiral Spruance's Marines and soldiers fought Japs for whom there was no line of retreat. But ahead of the Americans there was a pregnant line of advance-to the Marshalls, to the Japs' great naval-and-air center at Truk...
There is Commander Bill Brockman who carried part of Carlson's and Jimmy Roosevelt's raiders on the Makin Island raid in the summer of 1942. There are men whose exploits are legendary in the service: "Mush" Morton, big, amiable skipper of the Wahoo, one of four submarines to win a Presidential citation; Commander Frederick Burdett ("Peanuts") Warder, a mild-appearing, silent man whose only regret for his historic rampage in the Java Sea as captain of the Seawolf is that it inspired some writer tc curse him with the nickname of "Fearless Freddie"; Commander Mike Fenno...
Lucile Turner calls her type of singing "makin' glory." Thumping out her own accompaniments at the piano, she sings about love, Jesus, "pleasurin' my man," cotton fields, the thousand and one details and incidents of the Southern Negro's life. Sometimes she intones a prayer or a sermon in graphic Negro imagery...
Lucile Turner was last week on tour in Washington, D.C., "makin' glory" for Lord Halifax at the British Embassy, giving his son, legless Lieut. Richard Wood, the best time he had had since an unexploded Nazi bomb smashed him in Libya. Recent concert dates had taken her to many U.S. Army camps, to Manhattan's Rainbow Room, Brooklyn's Academy of Music, Manhattan's Town Hall...