Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile front from the southern corner of Luxembourg to the Rhine-Marne Canal north of the Vosges. He was encircling the ancient fortress of Metz, German kingbolt position on this sector and strongest shield in front of the coal, steel and pig iron of the Saar Basin...
Without invading Babelthuap and the other northern Palaus, the U.S. could not immediately use the vast Palau fleet basin. But airfields in the southern Palaus would serve: 1) for bombing the Philippines-if MacArthur invaded the central Philippines instead of Mindanao, Peleliu would be closer to the invasion coast than Morotai; 2) for air patrols which could clamp the northern Palaus in a neutralizing vise. Last week marine flyers based on Peleliu were already strafing and bombing Babelthuap...
...tomorrow's races will be over the Henley distance of one mile and five-sixteenths, the course beginning just in front of the Tech boathouse and ending out in the Basin about a quarter of a mile past the M.I.T. Sailing Pavilion...
...hours last week units of General Patton's Third Army swept over the Marne near Paris, zipped through to Verdun and a minor battle. Within another 48 hours they were in Alsace, at Metz; then they were reported stabbing into the Reich's rich industrial Saar Basin...
...three whole days no buzz-bombs fell on the London area. For the first time, the German communique made no mention of "V1 fire on London." Liberated Paris, however, got a nasty start when it was announced that robombs had fallen "in the Seine basin" (i.e., somewhere within 40 miles of Paris). The Allied censorship in Paris showed itself as tough as London's; nothing was disclosed except that there had been "casualties and damage...