It's yersel' knows the tinder feet that's on me since ever I 've bin in this counthry. The Universal Reciter Various You see I have the tinder now safely secured in my tinder-box. The Story of a Tinder-box Charles Meymott Tidy I want one of these sparks, if I can persuade it to do so, to fall on my tinder.
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) was an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II (1939-1945), oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan and led United Nations forces in the Korean War (1950-1953).
This approach of bypassing Japanese strong points, such as Truk, was applied on a large scale as the Allies devised their strategy for moving across the central Pacific. 1  Known as island hopping, U.S. forces moved from island to island, using each as a base for capturing the next. As the island hopping campaign began, MacArthur continued his push in New Guinea while other Allied troops were engaged in clearing the Japanese from the Aleutians. Battle of Tarawa