Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within it lie the eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea, parts of Britain's essential passages to the old treasure house of India and to the new, possibly greater treasure house of Africa. The Arabian Sea (northern part of the Indian Ocean) and the Persian Gulf flank India, reach into some of the world's richest oil areas, and may yet be Russian outlets to the south -as, until recently, they were Russia's inlet for Lend-Lease. And adjoining the Arab heartland lie Turkey and Iran - both Mos em but non-Arab -looking...
Peorias in the Pacific. To keep its fleets operating across 3,000 miles of ocean in one direction, 7,000 miles in another, the civilian Navy has set up 900 shore establishments, including 300 advance bases, some as large as Peoria, Ill. Problems of logistics are vast. Equipment for the base at Kwajalein was ordered 17 months before the island was actually taken from the Japs. By the time the Kwajalein units were under way, preparations had begun for bases in the Marianas...
...language of the communiqué was scarcely an emotional outburst. But in those words Nimitz had allowed himself to unbend, for the world at large, more than at any previous time in his three years under the immense burdens of duty as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas...
...Bottom. Fourteen months later, the Hornet was at the bottom of the ocean. So were the Lexington, the Yorktown and the Wasp. The Enterprise was at Pearl Harbor, recovering from a year's accumulation of battle wounds. There was only one U.S. carrier fit for actioa in the Pacific, the old Saratoga. Marc Mitscher, now a rear admiral, was sweating in open-necked khakis in a Dallas hut by the Lunga River on Guadalcanal, commanding land-based aircraft in the Solomons...
...whole vast Pacific Ocean Areas of Fleet Admiral Nimitz, there was no offensive in progress at the turn of the week. But a naval spokesman in Washington, weighing his words, admitted: "I think you can say the Marines are ready...