Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could only lie panting, waiting for some small return of strength. Endless blocks of homes lay in charred ruins. Most buildings were damaged; everywhere piles of glass-spangled rubble spilled into the streets. It was robbed as well as wrecked: the Japanese had stripped the Pearl of the Orient systematically of automobiles, refrigerators, furniture-everything that had been deemed worthwhile to ship to Japan...
Douglas MacArthur came back to Manila, Pearl of the Orient...
...professional dance team visiting Kaye's camp added him to its act. and took him along to play a vaudeville house in Detroit. The show he was in played 41 one-night stands in the U.S., then sailed for the Orient, where it got by in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, and way stations...
...opened the battle for Japan during the last half of 1944, long before Allied troops could land on the enemy shore. But there was no overconfidence this time, as there had been when the strategic bombing of Germany began. There was no talk of winning the war in the Orient with air power alone...
...coordinate #11 strategic bomber blows in the Orient, lean, affable Lieut. General Millard F. Harmon was doubling in brass as deputy commander of the worldwide Twentieth Air Force and as commander, Strategic Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas. For the present, he had to use his 6-243 (and occasionally some of his precious 6-295) to keep hammering at Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima) in the Volcano group, whence Jap fighters took off to harry 6-295 bombing Honshu, and whence Jap bombers took off to bomb the Superfort base at Saipan.* Later, when bases nearer to Japan had been...