Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English side of the Channel thousands of civilians flocked to resorts like Brighton for "a last look at the sea" before April 1 closed the southern coastal areas to visitors...
...Holland the Nazis had started flooding the country, blustered of plans to flood 5,000 square miles as an invasion barrier. Actually, while flooding large parts of Holland is possible, flooding the western coastal areas would be a vast engineering job, involving destruction of the great, three-deep system of dikes and dunes known to Dutchmen as the Watchman, Sleeper and Dreamer. (In London Dutchmen were already talking of a compensating slice of northwestern Germany if war's end finds any large portion of Holland's precious topsoil ruined by German-inflicted floods...
...operations base for 1,500 American Rangers and British Commandos." That there might be some truth in this enemy assertion was suggested when the Allies reported that specially trained U.S. and British combat troops-along with gunnery experts and engineers-are now operating with the Partisans in the Dalmatian coastal zone. Furthermore it was announced that the Allied troops had raided Solta Island, destroying Nazi installations, capturing 111 prisoners...
Farther east on the left wing, Malinovsky's army captured the coastal fort of Ochakov and steadily encroached on the German lines before Odessa. As things were going, it looked as though the Germans, if they were to extricate their troops, would have to evacuate a good portion of them...
...coastal strip ten miles deep and running all the way from The Wash, on the east coast, around to Land's End, westernmost tip of England, was closed to civilian visitors; even the local residents were forbidden to have binoculars...