Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philippines' danger is that the islands are a threat to Japan's flank if she moves on The Netherlands Indies. To prepare for such a move, the Japanese may well make a sudden assault on the islands. The archipelago's first line of defense would be Admiral Thomas Charles Hart's thin Asiatic Fleet (two cruisers, 13 destroyers, 12 submarines, as of June 1940). In a prolonged attack the Japanese would also have to meet the full might of the Pacific Fleet, now based on Honolulu. But what worries Filipinos is the problem of immediate defense...
...Bahamas form a long archipelago, and Mariguana Island, where the Navy will have a base, is 375 miles from Nassau. The exact nature of the base has not been decided. Only at Trinidad, perhaps a major spot in the defense, had no site for a U. S. base been agreed...
...felt as he did about the Italian usurpers set out on a venture that would have appealed to Ulysses. They boarded a motorboat at the Greek isle of Samos, just off the Turkish coast, and chugged through the night to Gaidaro, one of the islands of the Italian archipelago. Landing secretly, they surprised a police station, captured the chief and three of his men. Discovered and attacked, the raiders shot three Italian sailors, skipped to their launch, chugged back to Samos with their prisoners...
...hard-boiled Ettore Muti, who resigned as Secretary of the Fascist Party to get actively into the fighting. After several days he turned up alive, whereupon Mussolini gave him a silver medal (his ninth) for organizing and leading an October long-range bombing raid on the defenseless Bahrein Archipelago oil fields...
...port of Haifa on the Mediterranean, Italy took a running jump last week, landed at the far edge of the Middle East. Out across the sands of Arabia to the Persian Gulf it sent a squadron of heavy bombers, driving at the oil depots and refineries of the Bahrein Archipelago...