Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until recently Colonel General von Kleist held back ten armored divisions, probably in the Minsk-Brest-Litovsk area; by now he has probably had to throw them against the Russian avalanche. In France, in addition to the 30-odd coastal-defense divisions, twelve divisions stand in the rear, supposedly between Amiens and Sedan, waiting to counterattack Allied forces landing in the west. These forces are formidable but they are not true reserves: they cannot be readily spared for duty elsewhere...
...Navy scattered to the seven seas and over 5,000,000 troops scheduled to be abroad by July, the U.S. felt safer than it had since the war began. As evidence that the best defense is still attack, the Army and Navy began emptying men from U.S. coastal defenses, to ship them overseas. The Army ended all inland practice blackouts. Coastal areas henceforth will be "alerted" only on Sundays, no oftener than once every three months...
Medium bombers and fighters baited the Luftwaffe's coastal fields. But few German fighters appeared: in the five days, the Allies lost only 14 fighters, one bomber...
Last week the R.A.F. Coastal Command and the U.S. Navy let out a story about one of their most important antisubmarine operations. Over the Bay of Biscay giant, white Liberators keep a constant, 24-hour patrol. They sweep back & forth in a perpetual search to nail subs before they spew out into mid-Atlantic from their pens on the French west coast. During most of the long hours the scanning eye sees only a wilderness...
...these key atolls, and perhaps to others, the Japs have been hauling tons of cement and steel. As at Tarawa, they have fashioned pillboxes of coconut logs, concrete, metal and many feet of sand. Under palm trees are coastal batteries...