Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attack from the North. Tonguing out from Alaska, 1,150 miles into the north Pacific toward Tokyo, lie the U.S. Aleutian Islands (see map, p. 17). The outermost U.S. base, Dutch Harbor, is 2,550 miles from Tokyo-well beyond effective bomber range. But the Aleutians stretch halfway to Japan's little-known naval base at Paramoshiri in the Kuriles, which means that they could be either targets for Japanese attack or U.S. steppingstones toward Japan. Heavily armed, carefully balanced striking forces might take off from Alaska and the Aleutians, perhaps get the use of Russia's naval...
...thoughts on basic war strategy. The possible shelling of Atlantic coastal towns would be bad enough, but Canadians, remembering Pearl Harbor, thought also of Dutch Harbor. If the Japanese hoped to protect themselves from the wrath to come, they would have to neutralize Alaska, from which the Aleutian Islands stretch west and south toward Russian air bases, a short bomber hop from Tokyo...
Gaelen Felt will head the team as usual, with Captain Hal "Stretch" Baker filling the number two position. Orme Wilson, Tom Sears, Bill Frothingham, John Flint, Tom Baker, Wally McDonald, and Aubrey Gould fill the other positions in that order...
...Varsity hoopsters, by virtue of the well-deserved victory, automatically captured the mythical Greater Boston championship and served warning on the Elis that they are coming down the home stretch with full speed ahead...
...Cessna Aircraft in Kansas women saw, sand, nail and glue wood; sew, stretch on and dope the covering fabric; install the instrument board and radio...