Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irving Berlin's "This is the Army," will come to Boston on November 21. A block of 300 seats has been reserved for the Naval Training School, with the proceeds of the Army-produced show going to the Army Relief...
After acknowledging the loss of one city block in Stalingrad, 12 hours earlier, the High Command said all German attacks in the metropolitan area were countered successfully during...
...opening scenes of June 13th show shiny, steel-helmeted troops marching in the dawn's early light through the streets of Moscow. Cameras on balloons record their morning descent. Then follows the terrible shelling of Sevastopol. Five, six-story buildings tumble like childrens' block houses. Guerrillas, armed with makeshift guns supplied by the local blacksmith, recapture a village. Tank battle scenes were made through gun slits in the front Russian tanks. After disabling Nazi tanks with shells, machine gunners in a Soviet tank rake Germans trying to escape into the woods. One is hit just as he emerges...
...Japanese, who might have counted on the Aleutians as a flanking base during operations against Siberia, as a point from which to threaten Alaska, Canada and the U.S. West Coast, and as a handy spot from which to block supplies to Asia, appeared to have made a bad bargain...
...possibilities of their attacking Siberia grew dimmer as winter crept like a paralysis over the far North. In their present state of harassment they were no great threat to the North American coastline. They had failed to block communications to Asia: cargo planes bypassed them, flew across the Bering Sea; Alaskan air routes were in operation. Last week the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce revealed that supplies in quantity were being flown from the U.S. to Alaska, thence to Russia and China. U.S. bombers may one day take the same route...