Word: tsingtao
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Shepherd's Sixth. The other arm of Rockey's Corps, the 6th Division, was dumped into Tsingtao* under command of Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., stocky, energetic veteran whose great hobby is swimming under water to spear fish. His 6th had undergone its worst ordeal on Okinawa, at Sugar Loaf Hill-one of the decisive local battles...
...Tsingtao has good claims to being the fastest growing city in China. In 1898, when the Ger mans grabbed it, it was an insignificant fishing village; today its 800,000 population is well housed in structures which sprawl over the hills above the best natural harbor in China. Scenically it is beautiful. Architecturally it is wholly un inspiring: late igth Century German colonial, plus nondescript modern Japanese and Chinese...
Farther south, in the strategic Shantung peninsula, communications were paralyzed. There the Communists held the important harbor of Chefoo. But the more important harbor of Tsingtao was occupied by U.S. marines, under able Major General Keller E. Rockey. In the hinterland Central Government provincial troops struggled with Communists astride the main railway running "south from Tientsin through Tsinan, Shantung's capital...
...China coast the Communist Eighth Route Army held a solitary port, Chefoo. But a strong U.S. naval force cruised offshore. At strategic Tientsin and Tsingtao, U.S. marines landed and nonchalantly took over. Later they would hand the cities to the Nationalist Government. Other Marine contingents had raised their standards in Peiping and Chinwangtao...
Japan's alternative would be a tough one, too-to reduce the flanking bases, while her aircraft, operating from Yap, Palau and other bases in the mandated islands, went to work on Amboina and Surabaya. In 1914, Tsingtao, garrisoned by about 6,000 German troops and wide open to attack, held out against the Japanese and British for more than two months. Better munitioned and better located (on an island) than Tsingtao, Hong Kong is garrisoned by 12,000 crack British troops. Once having silenced Hong Kong, Surabaya and Amboina, the Japanese Fleet might swing around the east side...