Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's raid on "the pearl of the Indies" was puny, as carrier raids go nowadays: less than 100 planes, hardly one Essex-class complement. But there were promising factors: 1) for the first time Naval forces from the Mountbatten, Nimitz and MacArthur commands joined together; 2) Javanese, who have been wooed incessantly by Japanese propaganda, might begin to doubt that Tojo's forces were as all-powerful as he claimed; 3) surprisingly few Jap planes rose in defense; two of these were shot down, 19 others were destroyed on the ground; at least one ship...
...Since Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin's keen, bouncy Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr., a prewar isolationist, has maintained an almost-unbroken silence on foreign affairs. Last week, at the convention of his own Progressive Party, he spoke. War has not changed Bob La Follette very much. Said...
Royal Texans. Among them were two of the fighting Texans who crossed the Canadian border in such numbers before Pearl Harbor that the R.C.A.F. was sometimes called the "Royal Texas Air Force." Flight Lieut. "Tex" Barrick had thumbed his way from Odessa, Tex., to Canada, flown a Hurricane with the R.C.A.F., received a D.F.M. from the King. He intended to stay with the Canadians instead of joining the U.S. Army Air Forces. Said he: "You guys in Canada gave me a chance to fight, you spent a lot of money making me a pilot...
...days after Pearl Harbor, RID's Portland, Ore. listening post picked up a suspicious signal, communicated it to Washington. Within six minutes, seven Adcocks throughout the country, fixed it somewhere in the District of Columbia. Next day, when the illegal transmitter came on again, RID tracked it straight to the German Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...
...Heart in My Mouth is the unpretentious story of a visit Duncan Norton-Taylor paid (for TIME) to the Pacific war last summer. He felt about as warlike as most Americans. In Honolulu, he made a heartbreaking tour over the death-stinking decks of ships being raised from Pearl Harbor; and when he lunched with a group of nurses, "the least composed person at the table was I." He lost his Abercrombie & Fitch trench coat, the true war correspondent's caparison, in New Caledonia. He took a kind of tourist's gander at quiet Guadalcanal, rode around uneventfully...