Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pilots reported that systematic bombing has virtually neutralized Rabaul, once-formidable key base of the Jap defenses in the Bismarck Archipelago. All enemy warships have been withdrawn from Rabaul; merchant shipping is less than 50% of normal...
...immediate command, the new amphibious forces invaded Guadalcanal. Screening warships, unaccustomed to this new kind of mission, were caught napping by Jap cruisers. In a few agonizing hours on a rainy August night, four Allied cruisers were sunk. Naked transports carrying precious supplies brought thousands of miles were hastily withdrawn. For three months the Marines fought without substantial supplies or reinforcements and cursed the Navy...
...Admiralty referred to the submarine as a unit of a new "Eastern Fleet," which presumably includes warships withdrawn from the Mediterranean. The action was a promise for the indefinite future, when the Royal Navy can fulfill Prime Minister Churchill's pledge to join U.S. Pacific forces in the final attack on Japan...
...Transylvania "rightfully" belonged to Hungary. Second Hungarian move: preparation for general mobilization. Plainly the Magyars who still dream of Greater Hungary intended to be ready to move swiftly in any melee that might develop in the wake of the war. Over German protests, all but three Hungarian divisions were withdrawn from the Russian front. Premier Nicholas Kallay recently observed: "We must not gamble away our chances of voicing our demands when the complicated problems of central Europe come to be disentangled...
Peril in August. "I remember well in August of last year when I came to join the Eighth Army. ... I was told the Eighth was in imminent danger of being attacked by Rommel and that at all costs it was to be preserved and withdrawn down the Alexandria-Cairo road. Plans were actually being worked out to move Army Headquarters back to Cairo. . . The Eighth required somebody to say to it : 'If we are attacked we will fight where we stand - we will fight hard!' And once that had been said there was no further trouble...