Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bewildered is to gild the lily of understatement. Where was the withering machine-gun fire? Where were the murderous 320-mm. mortars, the gin. rockets? Where were the fanatic Japs? They were not defending the west coast of Okinawa from north of Kadena southward half way to Naha (see map...
...each carrier plane's air-sea rescue kit is a Celanese rayon-acetate map, printed on a salt-and-sun-proof pocket handkerchief...
...Army Map Service has turned out more maps, in greater variety, than have been used in any previous war. (For the Normandy invasion it produced some 70,000,000 copies of 3,100 different maps...
...Map Service has something new to boast about: a phenomenally durable map paper. It can be folded & refolded 3,540 times in one place before it will tear. Sample maps were tossed with dirty clothes into a G.I. laundry, washed, dried, wet again. Then they were tacked to a floor, trampled, slathered with mud, grease, paint and gasoline. They came out clear and usable. A little vexed by such inanimate obstinacy, a testing engineer put a match to one map, reported happily: "Map burns easily...
...three island chains which constitute steppingstones to Japan (see map), the Ryukyu line is the most inviting. Iwo, already serving as an advanced base for fighter bombers, is too small; the rocky Bonin and Izu Islands, which would be defended as savagely as Iwo, are also too small. The Kurils, extending northeast toward Russian Kamchatka, are not much larger, and are blanketed by weather almost as foul as that in the Aleutians...