Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Japanese hospital ship Takasago Maru was intercepted removing the sick and wounded from Wake Island "the Japs didn't have any magazines aboard and very much like to have TIME, LIFE if you have, please," reports Lieutenant Frank Huggins, Tokyo-raised language officer aboard the U.S.S. Murray. The destroyer grudgingly parted with one dog-eared copy of LIFE from the ward room and several copies of TIME'S Pony Edition printed in Honolulu. "The Japs bowed an eloquent thanks with a good deal of unnecessary, hissing...
Following in the wake of Tuesday's report that undergraduate enrollment at Harvard had sky-rocketed under the influence of the early end of the war to a new high of over 1300, there comes word that the annex to the northwest (called Radcliffe in some quarters) is emulating the Crimson expansion...
...people had little to hearten them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James P. S. Devereux, when asked if his handful of embattled Wake Island marines needed help, radioed: "Send us more Japs...
...first list had been hastily compiled, apparently under pressure from the U.S. press. It included the name of Tojo and all his Cabinet (a few of whom might win acquittal) and assorted criminals at large: Lieut. General Masaharu Homma (the Bataan death march), Mark Lewis Streeter (U.S. civilian from Wake who wrote propaganda for Radio Tokyo), Jose Laurel (Filipino quisling), Joseph Meisinger (Gestapo "butcher of Warsaw...
...Wake, Redemption. When the Stars & Stripes went up on Wake Island (see cut), the U.S. redeemed the second territory (after Guam) to be occupied by a foreign foe since...