Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon also announced that the U.S. Air Force has dropped more bombs in Korea than in the first two years after Pearl Harbor; the Navy and Marine air arms almost as many as in World War II from beginning to end. The Eighth Army has expended about the same weight of mortar and artillery shells as in the whole European theater during the eleven months from D-day to V-E day. And yet, during the Korean fighting, the enemy has grown not weaker, but stronger...
...April 1, 1946, unannounced 45-ft. waves from an earthquake in the Aleutians area brought death and destruction to the Hilo region. This time, Hawaii was ready. Police swiftly called out all off-duty officers and reserves. Radio stations began transmitting bulletins every few minutes. In Pearl Harbor, naval vessels put out double moorings; flotillas of smaller craft stood out for the safety of the open ocean...
South Sea pearl divers, aided by heavy weights and lines, have reportedly hit depths ranging from...
Navy Captain Mitsuo Fuchida was one of Japan's most famous flying officers of World War II. He led the first wave of bombers in the raid on Pearl Harbor, then circled high over Oahu for nearly three hours, directing the attack. He was later wounded at the Battle of Midway and spent the rest of the war as air operations officer at Japanese navy headquarters. At war's end, he went back to his farm near Osaka, sullen and bitter over Japan's defeat...
...preach Christianity to his old enemies. Fuchida was intrigued when he read about DeShazer's arrival. He bought a Bible himself. When he read the New Testament story of Christ forgiving his enemies, his old hostility dropped. He became a Christian and wrote several tracts (one title: From Pearl Harbor to Golgotha) about his own experience...