Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just after sunset, by the light of a young moon, the helpless Americans were led from their barracks. . . . When they reached the beach, their hands and feet were tied, they were blindfolded and finally ordered to face the ocean. Japanese soldiers, three platoons strong, stood six paces to the rear with rifles and machine guns. . . . Then the command was given that ended the lives of 96 Americans...
...crisp, 20-knot wind was blowing over Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the sun was shining brilliantly when Lieut. Charles C. Taylor led his flight of five Navy torpedo bombers out over the Atlantic. To Instructor Taylor, combat-wise veteran of vast Pacific Ocean spaces, the routine navigation problem was simple. That was the last seen...
Would U.S. art-lovers get to see what is perhaps the biggest pile of art treasure ever to cross an ocean? Said the Army: "It is not contemplated ... at present...
...mean the abandonment of all far-flung World War II cemeteries-from Iwo Jima to Salerno-where U.S. dead have been laid to rest. Incomplete records listed 122,000 buried in the European Theater, 41,000 in the Mediterranean, 29,000 in the Southwest Pacific, 11,000 in Pacific Ocean areas. The cost of exhuming and transshipping all the shattered, canvas-wrapped remains might run to $200 million. The cost in reborn grief is beyond measure...
...forge. But the Japs surrendered before he could strike a blow. Last week to Birdman Towers came as much recognition and vindication as he could now expect; with an admiral's four stars, he was named to succeed Spruance as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas. Naval aviators, already winning key posts in Washington (TIME, Dec. 10), were at last, if tardily, getting some of the top sea commands. Raymond Spruance headed ashore to run the Naval War College...