Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Test. Wake was a test of seaborne air power in island assault with ample forces. Wewak and Rabaul were tests of land-based air power with concentrated but still insufficient forces. Wryly and eloquently, a correspondent with MacArthur remarked that General Kenney's only reserves were "the planes that came back...
Somewhere in the Pacific, the U.S. task force that had mauled Wake Island on Oct. 5 and 6 steamed back to its base. From a carrier's bridge TIME and LIFE Correspondent Robert Sherrod surveyed the scene: "I can see a sight that would gladden the hearts of all Americans. To the starboard there is another carrier. For miles beyond are cruisers and destroyers. On the port side are several carriers, and their protecting cruisers stretch all the way to the horizon. We cannot see them, but there are still other warships over the horizon. It is the greatest...
...Tons per Sq. Mi. They also knew what air attack would not do. For nearly 22 months, since Major James Devereux and the last of his Marines were overwhelmed, the Jap had been building on Wake. In 48 hours 600 tons of high explosive, some half million .50-caliber bullets struck the atoll's four square miles. At 150 tons of high explosive per sq. mi., it was the most concentrated attack on any Pacific target...
...hornet's nest," the cluster of Jap bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Now, as the admirals planned, came word of a raid on the flank of the hornet's nest. A carrier task force, guided by Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery, had shelled and bombed Wake Island, where the Japs finally overran a little band of Marines on Christmas...
...Wake was only one point in the long perimeter, from the Kuriles to the Solomons, where the admirals could hurl their giant weapon...