Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they lost Hong Kong and Wake. Brilliantly defended Wake was a Pyrrhic victory for the Japs, but none the less a loss to the democracies...
...hours four separate air attacks were beaten off. Most of the Marines' fighter planes were lost. Again & again Wake was bombed. One attack was by 41 planes, another by 17. After each show was over Wake sent clipped reports. There was one that will never be forgotten: "Send us more Japs...
...Christmas week out there under the wide open sky on a sandspit in midsea, just as it was back home, where stores bustled, and parti-colored lights blinked from the trees in a million windows. But for the Marines on Wake Is land it was the week when they fought and died in their last, hopeless stand...
Over the Marines on Wake and Midway at week's end the flag still flew...
...classic treatise on one of the worst infectious diseases, sleeping sickness, last week came from the U.S.'s No. 1 encephalitis specialist, Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal of New York City's Health Department. Encephalitis swept the U.S. in the wake of the influenza epidemic of 1918. What World War II has in store no one can tell, but Dr. Neal and other experts* fill this book with everything they know about this dread malady (Encephalitis ; Grune & Stratton...