Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 18, the Japanese have been quite naturally obsessed by fear that the United Nations will use China as a base for large-scale bombing attacks on Japan, as well as on Formosa, Hainan, Indo-China and other Japanese outpost bases. Particularly suited for such use would be the peninsula of Shantung Province, which reaches out toward Japan like an angry fist, and the great bulge of Chekiang Province, within four-motor range of half of Japan...
From Berne, New York Times Correspondent Daniel T. Brigham reported that a German Army of 2,000,000 had gone into action on a 250-mile front between Dnepropetrovsk and the Crimea. The Russians said that heavy fighting was in progress on the Crimea's Kerch Peninsula; the Red Army was fighting stubbornly there against a new offensive...
...your issue of TIME, April 13, and the issue of LIFE for the same date, identical pictures appear of a group of Marines said to have been taken somewhere on Bataan Peninsula, Luzon...
...this makes it hard for me to understand why the Japanese were able to fight their way down the Malayan Peninsula so quickly," he added...
...following is an excerpt from a letter written on Feb. 14 during the heroic defense of Bataan Peninsula by Lieut. Colonel James E. Macklin, U.S. Quartermaster Corps, to his wife in San Francisco. She followed the instruction given in the last sentence...