Word: palau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire at Angaur, then landed with MacArthur on Leyte -Battlefronts Writer John Walker. And from this same exploding front comes another TIME correspondent - who covered 30,000 miles of ocean in five months, was on 17 Navy vessels, eyewitnessed the first raid on Manila and the carrier strikes at Palau and Morotai. His name is Bill Gray...
When the Japs were masters of Angaur, in the Palau Islands, they tied noncooperative natives to trees and bashed in their heads with coconut-palm logs. This put a quietus on native dancing, which the Japanese considered a heathenish practice...
Pale, intent men lay on white cots in the San Diego Naval Hospital last week listening with radio headsets to the news from the Pacific. They were casualties of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Palau, and they understood the cost of victory. They were armless, legless, diseased, blind. They knew that more would join them...
...General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force had stepped up its bombing of air bases and oil supplies in Celebes and Borneo; Major General Willis H. Hale's Seventh Air Force had smashed at the Bonin and Volcano Islands; Chennault had raided Formosa; the southern Palau Islands had been seized by U.S. troops...
...This afternoon . . . two of our fighters collided. . . ." Both pilots were killed. The rest of the brooding Rippers went on to fight at Palau and Woleai...