Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giap's Viet Minh forces, ignoring Operation Lorraine, suddenly swept south, swarmed across the Black River and swallowed the fortified French outposts Mocchau and Yenchau. Now they were advancing on the town of Sonla and the nearby airstrip of Nasan, where 12,000 French troops were cut off. There was another point of worry for General Linarés: What had become of Communist Giap's crack 308th Viet Minh division, which had suddenly vanished from the Black River front...
...French Morocco, where the U.S. is building five bases, $2,000,000
worth of material was stolen during storage.
...will take a 1,000-mile step across the Mediterranean from North Africa to bring its air bases nearer Russia. By arrangement with the British, the U.S. Air Force will take over the old R.A.F. airstrip at Tymbou, in the colony of Cyprus, a few miles southeast of Nicosia, the island's capital. A 3,000-man labor force will be recruited to rebuild the base for use by U.S. bombers, which will be only 600 miles from Russia's Black Seaports, less than 1,000 miles from Baku oil, Donbas coal and Dnepropetrovsk power...
KURIL ISLANDS (also given to Russia at Yalta): two infantry divisions, one composed largely of interned Japanese soldiers, under Major General Ryuji Sejima, formerly a lieutenant colonel on the staff of Lieut. General Tomoyuki ("Tiger of Malaya") Yamashita. The Russians have also heavily reinforced the intricate underground airstrip and ground force installations on Shumushu, northernmost of the Kurils, which have 300 fighters and bombers. From the Kurils and Sakhalin, a steady stream of Red agents is pouring into Japan...
...strike at the Red airstrip under construction at Taechon, 45 miles south of the Yalu. U.N. escort fighters were able to beat off Russian-built MIG interceptors, and the only loss-one of nine bombers attacking-was to flak. The pilot nursed the crippled 6-29 out over the Yellow Sea, where Lieut. Donald A. Birch used his precision bombsight to aim parachuting fellow crewmen at a tiny island. Twelve were rescued...