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Word: nissan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...with unprecedented seriousness-nay, furiousness." Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Air Force got its biggest weekly bag of the war: 27,000 tons of Jap shipping definitely sunk. > Against "negligible" resistance Admiral William F. Halsey's amphibious troops took the Green (Nissan) Islands between Bougainville and New Ireland, cut off an estimated 22,000 Japs in the Northern Solomons, ended the Solomons campaign. > Rabaul declined further as an effective Jap base as U.S. and Australian flyers sank twelve ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Toward a Jap Defeat? | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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