Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal Chicago Sun revived a six months' old anecdote, retold it as a choice bit of gossip. Said the Sun's Inside Washington column: When President Roosevelt was in Casablanca, General de Gaulle remarked that the French people regarded him as the spirit of Joan of Arc. Later, he let drop the comment that the French people thought of him as the reincarnation of Napoleon. To which Franklin Roosevelt jabbed: "General, I think you should make up your mind...
...blistering wave of air power flicked over the elected zones. Then the destroyers stood in from the sea and began a graceful, weaving parade offshore, their guns shooting tongues of flame at enemy pillboxes and strong points on land. Farther out battleships lobbed their heavy shells in high-arc interdictory fire to smash highways and crossroads deeper in the invasion area...
...Japs are bound to feel such losses, but they have many hundreds of planes tucked away on 60-odd airdromes along the arc from Java to the Solomons. After four raids on Vunakanau, Rapopo and Lakunai airfields near Rabaul within the last fortnight, American crews could still count around 200 Jap planes, and the force scattered along the south Pacific front probably totals 1.500 to 2,000-a good many more than the Allies have mustered in the same theaters...
...Guiana revolted against Robert and joined both the Fighting French and Giraud, Valentino was freed. He made his way back to Guadeloupe. Last week he was reported to have led an ill-starred uprising against Robert early this month. Expecting support from the crew of the Jeanne d'Arc, lightly armed training ship moored off Pointe-a-Pitre, the rebels took possession of the island's radio station. They got no further. Governor Sorin called on the Jeanne d'Arc's crew for assistance and got it. A salvo from the ship was enough to spread...
...size of the air force at his disposal is no indication of the size of the task facing cocky, fighting little Lieut. General Kenney. His targets stretch over a curve reaching from Jap-held Timor in The Netherlands Indies to the Solomon Islands. Within this 4,000-mi. arc the Japanese have concentrated more air power and troops than anywhere else in the Far Eastern war zone except in China. They may have an offensive thrust in mind: to clean the Allies out of Australia's outlying islands and launch an invasion of Australia itself. Or they...