Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships as though they were destroyer divisions: the emphasis was on speed and maneuver. But after his first hell-for-leather raids on the Jap islands - the Gilberts and Marshalls, Wake and Marcus - his force missed the Battle of the Coral Sea by hours. Halsey went back to Pearl Harbor on May 26, 1942, suffering from a skin disease which laid him up for weeks. He missed the Battle of Midway, decisive engagement of the war against Japan...
Tojo Had the Ball. But Halsey was a sailorman's sailor; the Navy still expected great things of him. On Sept. 15, on the deck of the Saratoga at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz said: "I've got a surprise for you, men. Admiral Halsey's back." Officers and enlisted men broke into cheers when Halsey stepped forward...
Four Nights Straight. The Ticonderoga, a big carrier of the Essex class, had been in action only a month when I went aboard her last December. She was my 23rd ship since Pearl Harbor, but I had seen none whose morale was higher. For one thing, she still had stateside provisions. Once we had steak four nights straight...
...Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria's Pearl Harbor"). North Africa was restive. Like Frenchmen, Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians were still worried about the food shortage. Last year, arid Morocco had its worst drought since 1904. This year's crop will be sufficient only for seed. And Algeria, where bloody revolts were bloodily suppressed (TIME...
Saburo Kurusu, "peace" envoy to the U.S. when Pearl Harbor was attacked, is now "busily engaged in tilling his garden" in the mountain town of Karuizawa, said Radio Tokyo...