Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number and exact location of these guardian outposts, scattered along the Panama Canal, are close-held Army secrets. But any foreign sailor, gliding through the Canal on a freighter, can see occasional clusters of tents or barracks in the hills, can even see the snouts of guns against the sky. Any Japanese or German strategist, studying maps of the Canal, knows that the guns are there to guard some of the most valuable military targets in the world: the locks in the Canal itself, and great earthen Gatun Dam (105 ft. above sea level and 400 ft. thick...
Wherever the guns, searchlights and watch posts are, there are soldiers burned hard and brown by the tropic sun, toughened by war with the jungle. For, when the Coast Artillery anti-aircraftmen in the Canal Zone were ordered into the hills last year, they had no place except jungle...
...Sandy" Jarman has under him some of the toughest specimens in the U.S. Army. Toughest of the tough is Colonel Homer R. Oldfield, commander of a brigade of shore and anti-aircraft gunners on the Atlantic side of the Canal...
...much for rumors. These were facts: > The Nazis were already in French-mandated Syria en route to Iraq and the Suez Canal. Last week Vichy lamely excused the alighting of Nazi planes on Syrian airports as "forced landings." > > The Nazis were already heavily fortifying French Morocco, where General Maxime Weygand, Commander of the French North African Army, has winked at Nazi activities. The Moroccan port of Casablanca, on the Atlantic, was already in use as a Nazi submarine base...
...Brock hadn't thought much about sketching in Cairo; but he reported last week from Budapest that the more he talked with talkative German soldiers the more certain he was that the Nazi machine would aim point-blank at Cairo and the Suez Canal very soon. Making the most of his talent for getting around, Correspondent Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal...