Word: schoutens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind Main Street, the white frame-houses are scrubbed spotless, and box elders border carefully trimmed lawns. The citizens of Sioux Center bear such names as Gerritsma, Ver Steeg, Van de Garde, Schouten; some 97% of the town's population is of Dutch ancestry. Communicants of the strict Reformed (Calvinist) faith, they keep a tight rein on their youngsters. Main Street has one beer parlor, no state liquor store, no dance hall...
...Some 1400 miles south of Guam, General Douglas Mac- Arthur's last important island hop in his leapfrogging New Guinea campaign was progressing-but it was no walkover. Sixth Army infantrymen had been all but stalled in their drive along the coastal flats of Biak Island in the Schouten group, aimed at the capture of three airfields within heavy-bomber range of the Philippines. They had to fall back, call for reinforcements, amend their tactics. Last week they drove inland, outflanked the Japs, captured Mokmer airfield...
According to Plan. The first step - -the beachhead - of the "final stage" went off smoothly. At Biak, largest of the is lands in the Schouten group, it was clear dawn. Offshore, the invasion task force under Rear Admiral William M. Fechteler hove to before the rock-pointed sandy beach at the southeastern heel of the island. From cruisers and destroyers poured a 19-minute barrage...