Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along a 6,000-mile arc of the Japs' Pacific defenses the Allied blows fell thick & fast. They flared like lightning strokes from Sumatra, where the Allied Eastern Fleet beat up Padang and Emmahaven, to Halmahera, where the enemy feared General MacArthur's next amphibious stroke, to the Kurils, northeast of Japan...
Enveloping Arc. Meanwhile Paris struggled in its hour before liberation. Great fires raged - reportedly the Germans' destruction of their depots. Refugees told of General Koenig's F.F.I, fighting Germans in the streets, of the Germans machine-gunning demonstrators...
...Americans had thrown an arc around the city on two sides, buckled it to the Seine...
From Versailles's gardens, ten miles west of the Place de la Concorde, the arc extended to Corbeil, 15 miles up the Seine from Paris. General Eisenhower did not tell the Germans exactly how far his encircling arc reached. But he was al ready in position to sweep completely around Paris to the east...
Creaking Hinge. But apparently all this was only flank protection. The main effort had been put into a wide arc which swung around the Seventh Army's unhinged left flank. The German Army facing north and west found itself being menaced from the south and east. Its route of escape was a narrow corridor to the east...