Word: rota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guam was easy. Captain George Johnson McMillin, whom the 22,000 Chamorros call King of Guam, could see from his 300-year-old palace the heavily fortified Japanese island of Rota. His kingdom had only one natural harbor and only one landing field. It was, thanks to the fact that certain U.S. Congressmen had not been able to see farther than the west bank of the Potomac River, unfortified. When zero hour came, Japanese warships shelled the island, setting fire to the oil reservoir and all the principal buildings. According to Japanese reports, the flag of the Rising Sun rose...
Guam. More than halfway across the Pacific, over 8,000 miles from Washington D. C., 1,400 miles from Tokyo, the island of Guam lies midway in the passage to India. About 50 miles away, visible on a clear day, lies the mysterious, Japanese-controlled island of Rota that Pan American clippers are forbidden to fly over. Guam's 20,000 natives raise vegetables, do little work to keep alive. Its tiny U. S. naval establishment keeps the nine towns clean and healthy, and ponders the strange ways of the U. S. Congress...
...penetration almost automatic. They have already invaded Mindanao with brigades of civilians and regiments of cheap products. A tight submarine ring might suffice to hold in the small U. S. squadron. based on Manila. East of the Philippines the Japanese already have bases in the mandated islands at Saipan, Rota, Yap, Palau...