(5 of 14)
4. His guns at Corregidor controlled Manila Bay.
5. He held Davao where a relieving force could land.
35. And heroes all were a tiny band of Marines who called for "more Japs" as they beat off powerful assaults in an epic but unsuccessful defense of:
1. Wake.
2. Yap.
3. Samoa.
4. Hilo.
5. Timor.
36. While to the West a gallant force held out for three weeks under an overwhelming Jap attack against:
1. Shanghai.
2. Hainan.
3. Penang.
4. Hong Kong.
5. Rangoon.
37. The Japs had immediately invaded Thailand where:
1. The British were already entrenched.
2. They killed the Premier, set up a Quisling.
3. The country fell after five hours of token fighting.
4. They were only 14 miles from the Burma Road.
5. They made contact with their Fifth Army in China.
38. Then as they struck south through Malaya and besieged Singapore, all but one of these things happened:
1. The Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk.
2. The British used only native troops in the jungles.
3. They toasted the earth instead of scorching it.
4. In nine weeks the Japs advanced 400 miles.
5. Jap troops continually landed behind the defenders' lines.
THE THEATERS OF WAR
Directions: The statements below identify scenes of recent war developments which are located on either of these two maps. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described.
39. Scene of first great U. S. naval triumph of the war.
40. Where an army of 100,000 still fights the Nazis in occupied Europe.
41. Russia's "dagger pointed at the heart of Japan."
42. Port Darwin.
43. Precariously neutral nation still receiving Lend-Lease aid.
44. Island fortress protecting the rear of the U. S. troops in Bataan.
45. Port which has changed hands four times in the last twelve months.
46. Changsha: where Chinese troops turned a fourth Japanese attack into a great Chinese victory.
47. On February 1st Russia had pushed the Nazis back past this point.
48. First U. S. territory conquered by the Japs.
49. In the first move of a campaign to protect their rear and destroy the bases from which U. S. flyers were spectacularly defending the Burma Road the Japs:
1. Lost two divisions in a drive on Bangkok.
2. Occupied and sacked Mandalay.
3. Had Anglophile King U Saw assassinated.
4. Took 150,000 tons of Chungking-destined steel.
5. Took Moulmein.
50. The plucky Dutch had been active from the start and:
1. Sank Jap ships steadily (54 in 54 days).
2. Reinforced the British in Malaya with 30,000 men.
3. Successfully invaded the Jap island of Rota.
4. Disclosed that they had slipped the Dutch battleship Wilhelmina hrough Hitler's hands to Surabaya.
5. Sent three cruisers to shell the coast of Formosa.
51. But in mid-January Japan struck at the Indies, indispensable to her for all but one of these reasons:
1. They have rich supplies of oil and metal.
2. They furnish us much of our rubber and tin.
3. Near Amboina is the world-famous Iron Knob, containing 100,000,000 tons of