Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourth of July came again to Harvard, and moved on past in patriotic splendor, leaving in its wake no missing fingers, no powder-burned eyelids, no mangled remains of light-hearted auto drivers...
Americans are already deeply indebted to the Marines of Wake and Midway, but making pictures like "To the Shores of Tripoli" is no way to pay off the debt. In fact, a few more like it and the Marines will be the laughing as well as the fighting stock of the nation. The acting isn't bad--John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott have no trouble giving adequate performances. But any resemblance between the story here and a good plot, or between this film and an honest-to-goodness he-man thriller is very well camouflaged. Instead...
That state of mind was not to be found in the Army or Navy. At Wake, Bataan, the Coral Sea, Midway and in every other theater of war they have shown their eagerness to make an all-out effort now. Nor was that state of mind to be found in the factories. Last week President Roosevelt said that May war production was 4,000 planes, 1,500 tanks, 2,000 artillery pieces, more than 100,000 machine-and submachine guns...
...front the U.S. must show its capacity to drive the invaders not only from the Attu and Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians, from Wake, from Guam, from the Philippines, but to conquer them in their own islands. To do so, U.S. armadas, in the air and on the sea, must move west, reversing the present tactical advantages. The U.S. must take the risks which Japan has so far taken, must successfully drive across the Pacific 2,575 miles from Midway to Tokyo...
...last day, the Army had one of its few important losses. East of Wake Island, a Flying Fortress went down at sea. With it went one of the Army Air Force's best commanders, 54-year-old Major General Clarence L. Tinker. With his yellow gloves, swagger stick and Osage Indian blood (one-eighth), General Tinker was a famed Air Force character. He could well remember the time, not very long ago, when the sea was reserved for warships and a few naval planes, and Army bombers were encouraged to keep away from the Navy's pond...