Word: bastioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rnberg and the Bastion. Ahead (see map) was the natural corridor be tween the Austrian Alps and the Carpathians to industrial Bratislava on the east bank of the Danube. From Bratislava the Red Army might divide into two forces. One could fight up the Danubian gateway to Germany through Vienna to Linz, Munich and Nürnberg. The other could follow the Moravian gateway to northern Czechoslovakia-the Bohemian bastion.* Other Russian forces now before Cracow could move in to join the Bohemian drive through the Oder...
...Said Bismarck: "He who controls the Bohemian bastion controls Europe...
More spectacular was the second India-based B-29 raid: nearly 2,000 miles for a daylight strike at Singapore, the first since Britain's naval bastion fell to the Japs in February 1942. Except for a B-29 night raid last August on Palembang, Sumatra, this was the longest mission ever made by bombers. Tokyo said 30 B-29s were involved...
Said Admiral Sankichi Takahashi: the air attacks of the U.S. fleet on the Ryukyu Islands and the great bastion of Formosa "were carried out as a prelude to operations for the recapture of the Philippines...
...squadron's time came on Oct. 31, 1943 when it swept around the Solomons bastion at Bougainville (at 31 knots) whipped close inshore and shot up Jap airfields one after the other while Marines stormed ashore at Empress Augusta Bay. Near the end of the job a Jap task force turned up. Burke, who had made a 31-knot run to refuel, was back on the job. The Little Beavers led their task force in sinking a cruiser and four destroyers that day. Navymen had never seen anything like the fury and deadly precision of the Little Beavers...