Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lanes. It was for them, and for the world power that they could give him, that he reached when his forces closed on Singapore; when he drove at the East Indies' heart and center through Macassar Strait; when, last week, on the easternmost flank of the Indian Archipelago, he squatted in the Bismarcks, the Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea...
Yellow Lava. When the Allies divided Germany's Pacific empire after World War I, Australia shared New Guinea half-&-half with the Dutch, also got the neighboring Bismarck Archipelago and renamed its chief islands New Britain and New Ireland. Similarly mandated to Australia were the nearby, seemingly insignificant Solomons. Japan got the Marshalls and the Carolines. All the mandating powers promised not to fortify their new protectorates...
...week's end he had made four landings in the Dutch archipelago. His troops got ashore at Tarakan (see map), an island off the oil-rich northeast coast of Borneo, the Indies' richest oil center. He pushed in under cruiser protection during the night, was met by the local defense force and by Indies Army bombers...
...deadliest tribes on the Archipelago, the Ifugao, have a very moral code and an extremely complicated system of justice," he explains. "Their medicine men, because they have no system of writing with which to preserve the rich mythology of the race, rely on their memories and can quote their father's teachings for weeks without running...
Through the Isle of Jolo spread a familiar, deadly-chilling fear. On that speck in the Sulu Archipelago, southwesternmost part of the Philippines, the Moros were going juramentado again...