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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action in the Marshalls. The yellow Pacific moon saw what the Jap had never thought to see. Spaced along a 200-mile ocean front, from the Marshall to the Gilbert Islands, was an assault force of U.S. cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers, led by a blue-water sailor and naval flyer, Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. (see cut, p. 23). They were ready to strike the Jap in his stolen strongholds-2,300 miles from Pearl Harbor, but nearest of all his bastions to Hawaii...
...Palembang lies near the center of southern Sumatra. Entrenched there, the Jap could drive on to the extreme southern tip, immobilizing the Dutch forces scattered through central and northern Sumatra. From the island's western coast he would have further command of the Indian Ocean and its vital routes (see p. 20). Only Sunda Strait would lie between the invader and Java...
...Looking about for another point of attack, we see Curaçao and Aruba in South America. . . . To these points have been extended the pipelines draining the great South American oilfields. . . . Great refineries are located there, out in the ocean, where, as it was described to me by a man who had reported it to the President, they stand out like sore thumbs-defenseless, a standing invitation to attack...
Seamen, dead and alive, in lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard...
...more difficult to escape from than famed Devil's Island, Fernando de Noronha houses murderers and other felons from the State of Pernambuco, political prisoners from all Brazil. Between the island and Natal, on the bulge of South America, lie some 225 miles of ocean. Few prisoners ever escape, for authorities see to it that there is little wood for building boats or dugouts...