Word: morotai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur communiqués sometimes pose a problem in semantics. Isolated phrases can be easily defended: the overall effect, especially to the uncritical reader, has sometimes been rosier than the cold facts warrant. On landing at Morotai: "This would cut off and isolate the enemy garrison in the East Indies . . . sever the vital supplies to the Japanese mainland of oil and other war essentials...
...south on Morotai, also "secure," the hunt (by Army troops) was still on, as it was on most of the Pacific islands where U.S. troops had broken the Japs. Last week, G.I.s brought in an especially interesting exhibit-a Japanese who spoke good English. He had been lurking around one of the camps for two weeks, had seen U.S. movies from afar. G.I.s grinned when he was asked his opinion of the cinema shows. Said the prisoner: "Lousy...
...more successful night attack the Japs sneaked nine bombers in over the important air base of Morotai, south of the Philippines. U.S. officers admitted casualties and damages; the enemy ebulliently claimed 74 planes burned on the ground...
Nothing south of the Philippines would do for the attack: Lieut. General Kenney's airmen based on Morotai had closed those routes. There were only two channels through the Philippines. The Japs bent their strategy to geographic necessity...
...baby daughter he had never seen, Earling Zaeske of his new son. They also thought of the baby daughter Demarest Lloyd had never seen and never would. Said the squadron diary: "Bernie McLaughlin landed from combat air patrol and announced that he had figured it out over Morotai that there are 84 shopping days to Christmas...