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... miles an hour ? Did they live , love and die in this Crusoe - like existence , knowing nothing of a world beyond their microcosm of coral sand ? On the fourteenth , a lone plane passed on opposite course five or six miles away . We went ...
... miles an hour ? Did they live , love and die in this Crusoe - like existence , knowing nothing of a world beyond their microcosm of coral sand ? On the fourteenth , a lone plane passed on opposite course five or six miles away . We went ...
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Incitement to War Kemp Tolley. Chapter 18 Twelve miles away across a purple black , rolling sea , lay the sleep- ing town of Geraldton . Behind it , the continent of Australia stretched 2,400 miles eastward . The Aussies , grandly ...
Incitement to War Kemp Tolley. Chapter 18 Twelve miles away across a purple black , rolling sea , lay the sleep- ing town of Geraldton . Behind it , the continent of Australia stretched 2,400 miles eastward . The Aussies , grandly ...
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... miles off Geraldton lay unlighted Houtman Rocks - low , rolling sand dunes set above coral reefs , none much above ten or fifteen feet high . Narrow , sandy beaches dropped off from one fathom on one side of a ship to twenty on the ...
... miles off Geraldton lay unlighted Houtman Rocks - low , rolling sand dunes set above coral reefs , none much above ten or fifteen feet high . Narrow , sandy beaches dropped off from one fathom on one side of a ship to twenty on the ...
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aboard Adair Admiral Hart Admiral Stark aircraft Allied alongside American anchor arrived ashore Asiatic Fleet attack Australia Bali Bataan boat bombers bombs British Camranh Bay Captain Cavite Chief of Naval CinC coast Commander in Chief Corregidor crew cruisers December deck deckhouse defense destroyers Dutch East enemy engine February Filipino fire fish forces Fremantle Geraldton Glassford gunboat Hart's headed heavy Helfrich Houston intercept Island Japan Japanese Java Kimmel Lanikai later LCDR Lieutenant Commander Luzon MacArthur Madoera Strait Manila Mariveles miles Naval Operations Navy Cross night Oahu officer Pacific patrol Pearl Harbor Pecos Philippines planes President radio raid Rear Admiral Rockwell Roosevelt sail sent ship ship's Singapore skipper soon staff Strait submarine Surabaya Tjilatjap told Tolley torpedo U.S. Army U.S. Naval U.S. Navy United USS Lanikai vessel Walruff warning warships Washington wind wrote