Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with this defensive hedgehog prepared, the Japs swiftly and without warning cut it loose to shift for itself. The crack Eleventh Japanese Army, which had spearheaded the great East China drive last year, was withdrawn from the connecting corridor. Then the Japs abandoned Nanning: every strategic purpose for which the corridor had been conceived was lost...
Yearling's Growth. The yearling Twentieth Air Force was feeling its oats. It had virtually withdrawn from its first, hand-hewn bases in China, and shifted planes from there to Tinian. It had another new wing in the Marianas, operating from a great new field on Guam. The weight of its blows had been stepped up 100% in two months, and would soon be further increased...
...Wheeler Field, in the center of Oahu, there are more Liberator heavy bombers withdrawn from combat, either to be cannibalized for parts or "pickled" for future disposition, than there were in combat in the entire Central and South Pacific commands two years...
Then the 1st was withdrawn for rest and reorganization. It went back into battle in New Britain. But its bloodiest job was still to come. In the early fall of 1944, under the late Major General William H. Rupertus, its men waded ashore from landing craft on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. On Bloody Nose Ridge in caves which were the "incarnate evil of this war," the Japs made their last stand. In stifling heat at least one regiment of the ist took as high as 60% casualties. The 81st Infantry Division ("Wildcat") moved in to relieve them. In three...
...objected strenuously: "the right of peoples everywhere 'to know' is at stake." Roy Howard, boss of the rival U.P., wired President Truman, urging that the suspension be withdrawn, lest the A.P. be "condemned unjustly," as he had been "pilloried personally" for jumping...