Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small British islands, Nauru and Ocean, just south of the Japanese-mandated Marshall Islands, were taken...
Against these advantages Japan balances a Navy with a high tradition, adept leadership, proved last week. Carrying the initiative with them, armed with secrecy, flaming with the success of their surprise attack, the Japanese have a broad ocean to hide in between blows...
Converted German merchant raiders, long on speed and cruising range, have harried Allied shipping with painful success. Last week the German merchant raider Steiermark met the Australian cruiser Sydney off the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Sydney had survived 60 attacks by Axis dive-bombers, covered 80,000 miles of war service, fired 4,000 shells, not lost a man. The first salvo from the German ship caught the Sydney, apparently not suspecting that she was dealing with an enemy ship, in the fire-control tower. But the Steiermark, only a converted merchantman, was no match...
...shortage has long worried Washington. Last week it became known that U.S. deliveries to Russia in October and November were less than half the several hundred thousand tons promised; lack of cargo space was the chief reason. Including those in the North Atlantic, more than half the 600-odd ocean-going U.S. freighters were last week engaged in supplying the Allies. But on no supply route were there enough ships to carry all the goods the U.S. was prepared to send...
...fight and die for it. We have seen in all the countries conquered by Hitler and his satellites that it is not pleasant to lose one's liberty. The attack yesterday has brought home to us more vividly than any talk of economic encroachment that no expanse of ocean, however broad, can protect us unless it is guarded by ships and guns...