Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have read Lucky Forward and find that it is the most authentic work yet done on Patton, the Third Army or the ETO high command. However, since I was [with] General Patton from the time of the landings in North Africa until war's end in the Reich, perhaps I did not view his activities from the vantage point enjoyed by TIME'S book editor nested away in New York City...
...Francisco this week would come the vanguard of the dead from the Pacific: 2,992 from Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.* From Africa in a few weeks would begin another funeral procession. Soon every U.S. city and town, almost every crossroads hamlet, would have a fresh reminder of the price of peace...
...tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials, the crest of the Royal Navy, the badges of the ATS and the Girl Guides, a representation of H.M.S. Valiant, the badges of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India and Pakistan...
...second phase of the operation would involve a fast offensive against the Iberian peninsula and penetration across the Mediterranean into North Africa, at the same time engaging a powerful attack through Persia, Iraq and Syria aiming at the Suez Canal...
...Asia could be brought to an end within two years, according to Soviet estimates. And once China was conquered, a compromise peace could be offered the U.S., based on a split of the world into two zones: Europe (except Britain), the Near and Middle East, North Africa and China to the Russians; the Indies, Indo-China, Indonesia, South America, Britain and her colonies and Japan under American influence...