Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sumadija. When Hitler's Stukas bombed Belgrade on April 6, 1941, Mihailovich had a coastal command in Herzegovina. As the Nazis overwhelmed General Dusan Simovich's bravely fighting army, Mihailovich retreated eastward into mountainous Sumadija, where Serbia had long fought the Turks. Thousands of disbanded or unmobilized Yugoslavian troops joined him, bringing their arms and equipment. The force was swelled by peasants and mountaineers...
...tighter organization, closer liaison with the Army and cooperation with the War Office, which was impressed by the caliber of Commandomen graduated from the Home Guard. These things gave the Guard a new role that no one dreamed of two years ago. The use of the Home Guard on coastal anti-aircraft guns, in troop transport and in joint field maneuvers indicated what the Government had in mind: shifting the burden of the defense of Britain on to the Home Guard, so that an army of 3,000,000 regular troops could be released for an invasion of the Continent...
...Navy needed more destroyers, more sub chasers, more blimps, more of other craft that could be used to convoy coastal shipping until the subs were knocked out. Until it got them it could only stand by and watch traffic be hamstrung by overnight dashes into sheltered harbors, by limited convoys, by other makeshifts that sadly slowed the pulse of United Nations commerce...
...coastal fires were the work of Axis agents, their purpose was twofold: to cloak submarines from the prying eyes of U.S. aircraft on patrol; to drag men from vital war factories to fight the fires. Fire-fighting manpower was at a low ebb. The draft had cut deeply into the ranks of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Soldiers and sailors banded together with hastily recruited citizens to dig trenches, fell trees...
...Army announced that shore lights, which have silhouetted many a ship for a submarine's kill, must be dimmed or blacked-out totally. The new Army order will hit amusement parks, boardwalk merchants, seasiders, but the real sufferers will be the real residents of coastal cities, who must grope in darkness for the duration...