Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was evidence that the Germans, preoccupied with their strategy of holding Allied invasion to France's coastal areas, had stripped the West Wall of big guns to arm the Atlantic Wall...
Only in Toulon, Marseilles and the coastal strip on either side of the beachhead was there any substantial German opposition. Even this was virtually wiped out twelve days after the landing. Allied troops entered Marseilles, reportedly scheduled for capture on D-plus-50, on D-plus-eight. La Cannebire, heart of France's second city, was a no man's land for six days thereafter, until the last German garrison gave...
...belongs to the Dutch. There are three different countries located on the coast. One belongs to the British, one to the Dutch and one to the French. All of them owe money to the United States and we might respectfully request of them that they let us have such coastal areas as we may want for our protection and for the protection of our brothers in the southern portion of this hemisphere...
...beyond Paris to slash the German escape route-or be set down in Germany beyond the Belfort Gap to speed an advance into Germany at the Swiss-border hinge of the Siegfried Line-or used to blaze the advance of the combined Allied Armies on north Germany along the coastal plane-the route by which Germany had invaded France twice in this century...
Considering its strategic importance, MacArthur's coastal campaign had been one of the most economical of World War II. The first stages had been slow and costly: a heartrending series of marches through jungles and over mountains to battle at Buna, Gona, Sanananda, Salamaua, Lae. But while the campaign to secure a foothold on one tip of the great island was being fought the hard way, a better, smarter war was being planned...