Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small but it was significant. Boulogne, which in 1803-05 was to be a jumping-off spot for Napoleon's invasion of England, bristles with protective armament. If a handful of men could thus dare the Nazi guns, perhaps something was rotten in all Hitler's coastal defenses. Certainly the defenses of Boulogne were not raid-proof. Shortly after the raid, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, lately named as commander of all German forces in western Europe, ordered the arrest of several Nazis, jailed 150 Frenchmen suspected of having given assistance to the British...
...only way to cut sinkings is by port-to-port convoy-a thing which is impossible for coastal shipping at a time when the U.S. Navy is busy convoying to Australia, to Iceland, to the Middle East. But the U.S. Navy has begun to develop a substitute which may prove to be a lifeline-saver: convoy by blimp...
...second front in the West. News came last week that Germany's brilliant Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, hero of the Nazi drive into the Ukraine, had been shifted to the Western Front, whether for offense or defense, and placed in command of Germany's coastal forces from Norway's far North Cape to Hendaye on the Spanish border...
...Vulcania-Saturnia mission was larger-scale and generously unilateral. No less than 11,000 Italian civilians-men incapable of military service, women & children-marooned in East Africa when Allied troops brought Mussolini's imperial dream crashing down, were to be repatriated gradually from coastal camps. Notable was the fact that the Italian ships were headed round Africa's Cape of Good Hope...
...slogan that might well sum up the official government attitude toward college yachting. Navy and Coast Guard officers everywhere are urging yacht clubs to teach all seamanship possible to ablebodied young men and thus provide a reservior of trained commisioned officers and enlisted ratings for coastal and harbor patroling, and even for offsore service in the nation's war effort...