Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quelpart Island, off the Korean peninsula's southern tip, the Japs had an air base. In March-according to last week's reports-Korean workers suddenly attacked the base, set fire to four underground hangars, destroyed two big fuel tanks and 69 airplanes, killed 142 of the Jap crew and wounded or scorched another 200. Trembling with rage and fright, the surviving Japanese butchered every Korean on the island, some...
...Japan were to hold the Soviet Coast and the Chukot Peninsula, opposite Alaska, she would dominate the North Pacific, and Alaska would be impotent. Meanwhile the Allies hold both jaws of the pincers; the authors urge that they use them...
Before the war, Rommel had traveled over the desert as a "tourist" and studied the terrain thoroughly. But he had no desert battle experience. So he established a training ground on the Kurische Nehrung, a sandy Baltic peninsula where UFA had filmed many a desert scene. His carefully picked soldiers lived in overheated barracks, learned to get along on dried food and vitamins, little water. Wind machines blew up artificial sandstorms. Rommel acclimated himself in a private hothouse...
...still rescued troops, commanders, wounded. In the streets, rear guards fought until the last ship had gone and Moscow announced: "On the order of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, Soviet troops on July 3 evacuated Sevastopol." Then the rear guards and the surviving civilians retired to Khersones Peninsula, where they could kill Germans until the last Russian had fallen...
...Greece, he had spent twelve years in more or less bored exile in Bucharest and London—a small-scale royal life of fast cars, lovely ladies, Mayfair clubs and divorce. In 1935 he was taken back to his throne in Athens. Five years later war rolled down his rocky peninsula. George stayed with his people to the end, fled only at the last moment...