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While Kenney's air force in the south pounded the Celebes and Halmahera, oil-rich Balikpapan in Borneo and the supply center of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, a detached force of Pacific Fleet battleships steamed north to tiny (740 acres) Marcus Island, little more than 1,100 miles southeast of Tokyo. After a full day of bombardment, Marcus' two air strips were out of commission...
...Marcus Porcius Cato never wore a derby hat. He never chain-smoked cigars or drank a highball. But Cato and Winston Churchill would have understood each other perfectly on one subject: Mediterranean policy. Like the Briton, the Roman understood that the key to the middle of the Middle Sea is the island of Sicily...
...mandated islands in the Pacific (including the Carolines, Marshalls and Marianas), plus the Bonin Islands, Marcus, Ryukyu and Formosa...
...butler wept. Sebastian sighed: "Now I won't get my evening clothes." "Was it Marcus Aurelius or Julius Caesar . . . who passed on in the W.C.?" inquired Mrs. Gamble. She arranged a seance at once...
...long coming. Even before the troops left, Klansmen beat the wife of one of the farmers, then beat the farmer until he lost his mind. Failing in their efforts to organize a militia, the whites and blacks of Carwell barricaded themselves inside the big plantation house. Marcus, Gideon's youngest son, was shot while trying to get help. Jeff was murdered after answering an appeal under truce to help some wounded Klansmen. In a brief three-day siege, the plantation house and all its contents were destroyed...