Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy bombers already being readied for use, the U.S. command's greatest need was a fleet anchorage in the western Pacific, fronting on the Philippine Sea. Saipan and Guam could serve only as staging points for a fleet; what was wanted was a landlocked basin such as Pearl Harbor, a blue lagoon like Kwajalein, Eniwetok or Majuro. A fine harbor could be had at Palau, a poorer one at Yap; a lagoon could be secured at one of several atolls in the western Carolines-far beyond the bypassed enemy strongholds of Truk and Ponape...
What would be the next stop on the road to Tokyo? Planning in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester Nimitz had a score of possibilities. Planning in Tokyo, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada had no possibilities at all. He had to wait for the blow, counter it if he could. Up to now his countering average was zero. His only asset was the fanatical willingness of garrison troops to die; their numbers and resources would increase as U.S. forces drove closer to his homeland. Saipan was but a sample of the Japs' determination to carry with them to death as many Americans...
...bombs which fell on Pearl Harbor caught the U.S. with only two hospital ships to its name. By this year's end it will have 24. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod described one of them in highly graphic detail in this cable from Saipan...
Chary Beginnings. For almost two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, young Japanese-American soldiers trained hard and all but unnoticed at a camp in the U.S. Then the news began to spread: they looked so good that the War Department began to recruit more from Hawaii...
Dragon Seed (M.G.M.) is a kind of slant-eyed North Star (TIME, Nov. 8). A two-and-a-half-hour picturization of Pearl Buck's best-selling novel (TIME, Jan. 26, 1942) about China at war. Often awkward and pretentious, it nevertheless has moments of moral and dramatic grandeur...