Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...please and appease Londoners who had lost much, British planes bombed Berlin for four and five hours a night. But the main heat of R. A. F. attack still licked at German-held ports, all the way from Stettin on the Baltic to Lorient, the port below the cape of Brittany where France built much of her Navy...
...ended too soon. Back with the British Army again last spring, promoted from second lieutenant to major, he went to Narvik, was there long enough to be driven out. He planned to go to France, but France collapsed before he got there. Arriving in Egypt by way of Cape Town, he contracted malaria. Last week he alternated between a sweat and a fret in a military hospital...
There is a further threat since Russian naval and air establishments have been built on the Kamchatka Peninsula (which wanders off the western edge of the map), since the Russians are reported to have constructed bases at East Cape, Anadyrsk, and other nearby points on the Asiatic mainland...
Starting in its second active year, the C.A.A. pilot training course this year presents a considerably intensified program. As a part of the increased pace of defense preparations a summer course accommodating thirty was hold on Cape Cod from July 1 to August 15, and this winter the work will be compressed into the first semester...
When Britain's plenipotentiaries sat down at Utrecht in 1713 to write an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War to American colonists) they despoiled France's Louis XIV of his important eastern Canada holdings except Cape Breton Island off the east end of Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy...