Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy freighters and their destroyer kept as much as possible in Spanish waters as they sailed past Britain's fortress. As the convoy entered the Mediterranean the British gave chase but did not open fire. Presently the screech of projectiles began, not from the Vichy destroyer but from coastal batteries in French Algeria. Were they manned by Nazis or by Frenchmen? The British could not be sure, but their ships opened up and shelled the shore batteries. The French convoy put on speed and ducked into Nemours in Algeria. As the British ships put back toward Gibraltar they were...
...miles south of Cheren in Italian Somaliland. South African forces covered 70 miles in two days, pushed into Chisimaio on the tepid Indian Ocean. Supported by the Royal Navy and the South African Air Force, these blistered fighters were all set to start up the 250-mile coastal road to the capital city of Magadiscio...
...British apparently saw advantages in pressing on. At week's end they announced that advance forces had already taken el-Aghéila, 170 miles beyond Bengasi and half way across the Sirte desert. There were hints that mechanical units would press on along the coastal highway, that troops might be transported...
LONDON--German "Big Bertha" guns today flung salvoes of shells into an English coastal town after relentless night assaults by British bombers on an 300-mile stretch of Adolf Hitler's "Invasion front" and his war centers of Bremen and Hanover...
With accurate artillery and automatic small-arms fire they stopped tanks, routed infantry, even took new heights. At week's end Athens spokesmen confidently predicted the imminent capture of Tepeleni, key to the coastal front; and on the northern front Greek Sanitary Corps mopping up the battlefield buried 650 Italians...