Word: straits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just as the Allied column was making the entrance of Sunda Strait, the Perth, in the van, sighted two Jap ships. Soon more appeared-the Allied ships had run into a Jap invasion armada of transports and their escort. The battle-if anything so one-sided could be called a battle...
Last Port. In some ways, Pat had been lucky. Seventy-one of her sister destroyers had been lost in the oceans of the world; their bones lay in Iron Bottom Bay, in Bali Strait, in watery locations marked simply...
...unbearably long days & nights, when the mental strait jacket of Army discipline and regimentation seemed strangling, I had dreamed of "the moment." Now, at 4:22, I was a free man. But it didn't turn out like the dream...
Politeness. Thanks to the Jap trick of not reporting many a prisoner, there was the cheering word that men long believed dead had survived. Three hundred men of the cruiser Houston, unreported for the three-and-a-half years since their ship was sunk in Sunda Strait, were discovered alive in Thailand. Vanished heroes came back as it were from the dead: Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" of Bataan; Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane, of the missing submarine Tang; Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, naval commander at Wake Island...
...British were sweeping mines from Malacca Strait, preparing for the occupation of the Netherlands East Indies...