Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew of the Philippine Clipper was at Wake when the first attack came-18 Jap planes that bombed and strafed the construction camp, the docks and fuel installations. The Clipper was ordered back to Honolulu. The Marines stayed on. Somehow they managed to sink a Jap cruiser and a destroyer. They knocked down two enemy planes...
Beyond the International Date Line, where it is always tomorrow, Wake lifts itself in three desolate sandy specks in the midst of a watery nowhere. A Clipper stop on Pan Am's famed trans-Pacific run, it boasted a small hostel, an imposing concrete air-raid shelter recently built, a catch basin for rain water, a hydroponic tank for growing vegetables, which the coral sand refuses to nurture...
...Wake a tiny band of Marines made more of the Corps's imperishable history that had its beginnings in the fighting tops of John Paul Jones's Ranger and Bon Homme Richard. They had been there since the first day of war, beating off attack after attack by the Jap. shooting down his planes, sinking his surface ships, probably knocking the spots out of his landing parties. It was "probably" because Wake's Marines-well-trained rifle marksmen, as all leathernecks are-were busy at their prime calling. Between fighting they had little time for dispensing news...
...American forces in the Philippines penned invading Japanese in three isolated sectors in an effort to out them to pieces, U. S. bombers blasted two more Japanese troop transports and further Japanese air attacks were beaten off with slight damage. American garrisons defending Wake and Midway Islands still held...
Harvard's 3 to 31 loss to Wesleyan in basketball Saturday night at Middletown, Connecticut, may be just the kick in the pants that the Crimson hoop squad needs to wake it up if it expects to salvage even a few games this season when the competition gets stiffer...