Word: morotai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as numerous as the flyspeck islands. The U.S. wanted to draw a military Equator across that ocean and assert its claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...
...Under the caption "Battle of the Pacific" in TIME [May 14] you printed: "In preparation the Australian First Tactical Air Force had flown the 1,400-mile round trip from Morotai to bomb Tarakan heavily. U.S. bombers of the Thirteenth Air Force added their...
...operations plan was known as "Foo-Foo." In preparation the Australian First Tactical Air Force had flown the 1,400-mile round trip from Morotai to bomb Tarakan heavily. U.S. bombers of the Thirteenth Air Force added their bit. Then U.S. Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey sailed his light task force of cruisers and destroyers in for four days' naval bombardment. Foo-Foo really got rolling when U.S. Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal brought up his Seventh Fleet landing craft loaded with tough, felt-hatted veterans of the illustrious 9th Australian Division and a token Dutch force...
...Angaur, then landed with MacArthur on Leyte -Battlefronts Writer John Walker. And from this same exploding front comes another TIME correspondent - who covered 30,000 miles of ocean in five months, was on 17 Navy vessels, eyewitnessed the first raid on Manila and the carrier strikes at Palau and Morotai. His name is Bill Gray...
...patrol. She ducked Jap air attacks, captured a motor-driven sampan with three prisoners. From that day on she was up to her gunwales in the Pacific war: she fought in the Solomons, bombarded Aitape, took part in the Aitape and Biak landings, saw action at Cape Sansapor, Morotai, Dinagat, Leyte...