Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon might. Little Caesar sent a birthday wire to the Berlin Big Shot expressing "firm confidence that the German people will victoriously stand the test to which they have been subjected." He mobilized his entire Navy, and sent six battleships, 19 cruisers and about 75 destroyers into the Aegean Sea conveniently close to Salonika. His submarine fleet, estimated at 135 (the largest of any country in the world), went to the midMediterranean and lower Adriatic. Rejected reservists of the 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914 classes were called for service. "Laborers" in steel hats continued to arrive in Albania. The Scandinavian...
...Aegean reaches of Turkey, floods caused by misdirected streams capped the climax. Fourteen towns in the Karacabey Valley were inundated, motorists were drowned, residents took to their roofs...