Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walton, who landed with the paratroopers, is with the 82nd Airborne, which is probably the best spot here, and will stick with them. I will try to keep you covered on overall American action and am now proceeding with Capa for a closer look at the currently most active sector...
Japan could not afford to let Saipan go. The shots of the U.S., getting closer & closer, were on the target now. When the Navy got Saipan, the next shots could be on the bull's eye-Japan's homeland. Opened by old Matt Perry with blandishments almost a century ago, Japan was on the way to being opened again-with steel. One of the mathematical minds behind that quickening progression was Admiral Spruance...
...Asiatic mainland, the Chinese captured Lungling, drove closer to the reopening of the Burma Road. Farther east, bitter fighting raged around the beleaguered Chinese city of Changsha, and from the south, around Canton, the Japanese launched another drive into the heart of China...
...colored German ack-ack was streaking the morning sky. In the fleet were old ladies like the Arkansas, belching with twelve 12-in. guns, the Texas and the Nevada, each with ten 14-inchers; the British Warspite, veteran of Jutland, the new British Black Prince, the British monitor Erebus. Closer in shore stood the cruisers and, even closer, the destroyers - the whole great armada, spread out from horizon to horizon, try ing to batter down the Atlantic Wall. Overhead were 8,000 planes of the R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth and Ninth Air Forces, adding their big and little bombs...
Farthest Is Nearest. Icelanders know that they must lean on a strong, good-neighborly power. The British Isles are only 700 miles away. But the U.S., whose troopships steamed 2,300 miles to Reykjavik's cobblestoned levees in 1941, is closer in other ways. Naturally Iceland does not like the presence of strangers. But the U.S. has demonstrated neighborliness by trying to keep things on a guest-&-host basis (see LETTERS). The U.S. has underwritten British obligations to Iceland to the tune of $20,000,000 annually. The U.S. pays good U.S. dollars for Iceland's fish...