Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before Pearl Harbor, some 9,000 exuberant young Americans swarmed across the border and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. So many of them were Texans that Canada's Honorary Air Marshal William Avery ("Billy") Bishop once cracked: "The Royal Texas Air Force!" After Pearl Harbor, some 3,400 transferred to the U.S. Air Forces. Others were casualties. But 2,800 of them are left...
...Oldendorf's moment. His ships laid down a semicircular wall of fire, from guns of all calibers, 5-inch to 16-inch. Laying it down were five battlewaeons salvaged from the wreckage of Pearl Harbor: the California, Tennessee and Pennsylvania (14-inch), West Virginia and Maryland (16-inch). Ultramodern fire control and crack handling put the first salvos squarely on the targets...
...Pacific war flowed swiftly westward and a great naval supply system, from Pearl Harbor to Australia, was left behind. In its stead, another of the Navy's imposing monuments to U.S. speed and ingenuity was built and implemented. By last week one of its secret-wrapped bases was far enough in the rear for the Navy to feel safe in unwrapping it. The base was Manus in the Admiralty Islands, more than 6,000 miles southwest of San Francisco, a key supply and repair point for the Philippine invasion...
Solid Booking. In Chicago, Pearl Feld worked 38 years at the Public Library, retired to catch up on her reading...
...thing was probable: the court report would be kept secret until after Election Day. One thing was now certain: the famed Roberts report on Pearl Harbor issued in January 1942 did not tell the whole truth. The full history of Pearl Harbor had yet to be written...