Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia -- (Late Bulletin) Australian troops have entered Gona, a communique said tonight. Allied forces also occupied Cape Endaiadere, south of Buna. The heaviest fighting of the entire New Guinea campaign was reported raging in the narrow coastal strip where the Japs are pinned with their backs to the sea between Buna and the Gona mission, 15 miles up the coast...
...time Patton's three tank columns had pierced through to Casablanca, all coastal French Morocco, from Agadir in the south to the Spanish Moroccan border on the north, was in American hands...
...Prize. A land of deserts, mountains and rich coastal valleys, Tunisia (pop. 2,608,313) has been a world trouble spot since antiquity. Here fabled Dido was consumed in flames. Offshore Ulysses' sailors were lured by the lotus-eaters. From Carthage, whose ruins lie near the present city of Tunis, Hannibal's legions moved against the Roman Empire. It was Cato the Censor who urged on the Romans in the Punic wars with his famous slogan: "Delenda Est Carthago" (Carthage must be destroyed...
Sweeping westward on a wide front, British tanks and infantry yesterday pushed to within 70 miles of Benghazi, main Axis north African supply port east of Tripoli, a communiquo announced. The British were believed advancing on Peughazi from the east and northeast, one column following the coastal road around the Libyan hump and the other striking directly across the desert...
...coastal end, but farther south, near the Hill of Evil Men, Montgomery's 51st Highlanders streaked across the moonlit, wreck-strewn desert. What was left of Rommel's artillery tried to hold them back. The British infantry swept on. Dazed and shell-shocked Germans surrendered, turned and ran, or died in the sand beside their 88-mm. guns. Rommel's dam had burst...