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Word: axial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea, U.S. and Australian troops were closing a trap around one Jap force while bombers at tacked the coastal base of Madang. U.S. troops on New Britain had widened their beachhead and Douglas MacArthur's planes steadily attacked the Admiralty Islands, through which Japan fed the axial base at Rabaul. From new bases in the northern Solomons U.S. planes battered that once-great Jap outpost, destroyed more than 400 Jap planes. Announced U.S. losses: 60 planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Year of Attack | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...spite of unfavorable weather, Mil Sci gunnery classes have continued as usual, although shifting winds and varying pressures have been making it difficult for the "B.C." at times. Mil Sci III is getting its first taste of "Large T" and wishes it could go back to "Axial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUZZLEBLAST | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

Greece and Turkey could not forever resist the Axial shadow. Unless Britain at home and in the Mediterranean could do something about it in a big military way, the charge of Axis pens into the Southeast would be hard to stop. Last week Adolf Hitler had signed himself to within 250 miles of the Dardanelles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Signatures on the Axis | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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