Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported any bombed-out home. Rumors were thick as flack: that the Army had shot its 1,430 rounds at an escaped barrage balloon; that enemy planes had been reconnoitering; that the target was a lone U.S. plane trying to land; that the Army was staging a show to wake people up. The Western Defense Command said: "Unidentified aircraft were reported in the Los Angeles area...
Attack from the Center. Given the means and the offensive will, the U.S. can do more than raid from Pearl Harbor. Assault forces of carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and transports with supporting troops can strike to recapture Wake,* then Guam, eventually establish a forward base in Japan's Marianas. Similar forces could fight step by step through Japan's Marshall and Caroline Islands, finishing what the Navy spectacularly began in February with hit-&-run raids...
...Last week Tokyo reported an attack on Wake by a typical task force: two cruisers, an aircraft carrier, six destroyers. The Japanese said they suffered minor damage, minor casualties. Said the Navy Department in Washington: "No information...
...Robinson needed any more incentive than Pearl Harbor, the Japs gave it to him shortly before Christmas. They captured his son, Lieut. James Burnham Robinson, U.S.N.R., a civil engineer, on Wake Island...
When the Nazi Army retreated through another village, it forced all 80 inhabitants to go with it. One of the villagers told how he and his nine children, his wife, his blind father and his mother had marched in the wake of the soldiers. "The grandmother was slow moving and the Germans came up and beat her. . . . One by one his own children and four other children died of the cold. . . . The second day his boy of three years perished. . . . That afternoon . . . the Germans began to shoot the stragglers. . . . His wife and one daughter were shot down and the others...