Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the end was near. From the shores of the Bay he withdrew his naval forces, sailormen and Marines of the 4th Regiment (evacuated last November from Shanghai) to Corregidor. He tried to strike one last blow. Against a Jap breakthrough on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula he threw a corps in desperate counterattack. It was too much. The glassy-eyed soldiers went forward like men in a dream, so exhausted that many of them could hardly lift their feet, and the Jap mowed them down. The flank folded...
...numbers. The Japanese pierced the defenders' left center and began to pour through. But a noise came up angrily to meet the noise: the defenders closed their line, pocketing many Japanese behind them. Later the Japanese tried to land from barges on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula, and came noisily once more against the defenders' right center...
...dock that had once held the once-mighty Normandie, the busiest pen for Nazi subs. The raid was soothing to Britain's invasion boosters, too. To many of them it seemed that the British brass hats were at last realizing the vulnerability of the 100-mile wide Brittany peninsula...
Seventeen times on Sunday, over 17 different wave lengths, Command Performance is short-waved by eleven U.S. radio stations to the armed forces on Bataan Peninsula, to frosty Iceland, Alaska, Ireland, the scorchy Caribbean, to the boys in the Antipodes, the Middle East, wherever they are. It is global entertainment, designed for global...
...marches, shoots, gets wet in the field, straightens its legs, grows hard and smart. If its officers and noncoms are on the job, it finally grows up; its rookies become soldiers in less than a year. And each new division knows that many of the outfits on Bataan Peninsula had no longer a time to grow before they had to prove that they had come to man's estate...