Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ukraine's great feeding ground (see p. 36). Before the Don was lost, the Russians themselves said that it was second only to the Volga in national importance. If they have not been cut off from the oil, fish and ports-of-entry in the Caucasus, their access has been gravely impeded...
Behind the Russians in Stalingrad a two-mile pontoon bridge, built of rough planks supported by empty gasoline cans, gave access across the Volga. Since Sept. 18 German bombers had dropped tons of explosives attempting to smash the bridge, but had done only minor damage and that was quickly repaired. But the floating bridge was a slender thread...
...Japanese hands. Japan, though she signed the Geneva Convention, never ratified it. But the Japanese have publicly declared they would apply the spirit of the Convention to their American, British and Dutch prisoners. The Jap War Office has agreed in principle to permitting Y-men access to captured soldiers...
...imminent, it was easy, now, to believe that the cold, harsh face of Bock could turn into the face of victory for Hitler and the Germans. That face was everywhere in Russia. It was the face of Dietl on the Finnish front, where the Russians fought to keep their access to the North Atlantic. It was the face of Leeb on the northern front, where the Russians were reduced to sending training planes with bombs against the German ring around Leningrad. It was the face of List on the Central front, where the Russians at Rzhev fought to press...
...theater: Basra, the river port which U.S. and British engineers have turned into a busy reception point for war shipments through the Persian Gulf. At the military worst, it would be to Basra that the Tenth Army would retire, for with Basra would go the Persian Gulf, and its access to South Africa, the South Atlantic, the U.S. and Britain. The battle for the bridge would first be a battle for overland rail and highway routes from Basra through Bagdad to Persia, the Caspian and Russia; then, at the blackest last, for the city itself. At such a juncture...