Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brightest week of the Pacific war was encouraging indeed in contrast to the slow, grueling battle of Italy, the long wait for the second front, the hope, deferred of airmen that Germany could still be knocked out by bombing...
...other strategists who have an eye on China and the Philippines. Dour, realistic Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell promised to support Nimitz by "an aggressive Allied land and air offensive projected from the interior." But Infantryman Stilwell barbed his statement with caution that "vital China-based air operations cannot wait for penetration of the blockade by land...
Other details of the Navy's slam-bang operation would have to wait. But one other fact was clear at week's end: the Navy had shown Japan that no longer is any island base beyond the striking range of Spruance's Central Pacific fleet. The overfeared power of land-based air power had been set aside by greater air power from...
...bring up the heavy warships and pound the atoll for several days, 4) land troops with artillery on smaller islands adjoining the important installations, 5) throw naval gunfire, bombs, artillery shells on the installations until they are pulverized, 6) send in the foot soldiers to kill whatever Japs still wait for death in the ruins...
...going to do what countless soldiers have done before me-wait, sitting...