Word: capetown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entrances to India's eastern ports (Madras and Calcutta) which are also inlets for China's supplies. On Ceylon is Trincomalee, Britain's secondary naval base, immensely important now that Singapore is gone. Trincomalee is now the Allies' only useful naval base north of Capetown and east of Suez. Whoever holds Trincomalee and Ceylon's airdromes holds the key to the Indian Ocean and all its vital sea routes between Africa, Australia, India and the Middle East. Without Trincomalee and Ceylon, the Japanese can make Allied transport in the Indian Ocean dangerous and expensive. With...
There Pan Am's Capetown Clipper paused last week on an 18,290-mile proving flight from Manhattan to Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo-a flight that will soon lead to regular fortnightly commercial service. There at Natal Pan Am is building two bases, one land...
...ship on the horizon. The men signaled across the water with flashlights. The Ozorio halted, picked them up: one British passenger, a mate, two engineers, seven seamen. For seven days the U.S. believed that the rest of the Robin Moor's passengers and crew were lost. Then from Capetown came word that they had been rescued by a British ship bound for Africa...
...ship, which sailed from New March 27, was reported to have gone down somewhere between Pernambuco and Capetown off the South African coast...
...Freda Kirchway, the editor of the Nation, Clark left college last February to go with the British American Ambulance Corps to serve with the Free French forces of General do Gaulla in Africa. Hosting also was a member of the Ambulance Corps, which was to disembark at Capetown and proceed by other to French territory...