Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia -- (Late Bulletin) Australian troops have entered Gona, a communique said tonight. Allied forces also occupied Cape Endaiadere, south of Buna. The heaviest fighting of the entire New Guinea campaign was reported raging in the narrow coastal strip where the Japs are pinned with their backs to the sea between Buna and the Gona mission, 15 miles up the coast...
GEORGE W. EDWARDS Cape...
...Bombers from Malta had eased the way for the Allies with a crushing raid on the airport near Tunis which wrecked or crippled 38 planes, and the Rome radio reported a tangle between Italian and Allied fighter planes over Cape Bon, 145 miles, inside Tunisia from Algeria. This indicated Allied fighters were operating from new forward bases in Algeria or that long-range fighters from Malta had joined the fray...
...From Italy and Crete, Axis transports on the sea and in the air, plagued by Allied planes, tried to rush reinforcements and supplies. Across French Equatorial Africa tortuous lines fed aid to Montgomery; men of De Gaulle hacked new routes through the jungle. U.S. and British freighters rounded the Cape, climbed the side of East Africa and plowed into the Red Sea. The web covered half the world...
...like a fountain. That "honor and sainthood are his two absolutes" reminds me of that French sea captain in Conrad's Lord Jim, who on diagnosing Jim's trouble in the Patna affair, finishes "the honor, monsieur! . . . The honor . . . that is real" and goes away-his shabby cape swinging...