Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...training program is the high spot of Canada's war effort; the Air Force has sometimes hogged both limelight and money, to the harm of general military cooperation. Canada's best military men reason that the Air Force's chief war chores (training, coastal patrol and convoy) lend themselves to separate direction. But they feel that the U. S. air services (Army and Navy) still have much to do in common with land and sea forces, therefore should not be separated now. A further reason heard in Canada for the U. S. keeping its system: once...
...pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers in the warships' fire-control towers said flames leaped up, were still visible at sea two hours later. For the third time in a week the British Fleet had pounded troop concentrations along the coast. Further Italian advances along the coastal defile between the sea and the Libyan plateau would have to be carried on under the muzzles of the British Fleet unless the numerically and mechanically superior Italian Air Force, including Squadron Leaders Bruno and Vittorio Mussolini, could drive the Fleet to cover...
...British Commander, Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 57, who knows the Middle East like the knuckles on his own hand. He sent his men to work on the un-camouflaged Italian camps with a little of everything, including mobile "guerrilla artillery." British warships from Alexandria shelled the coastal road by which the Italians advanced...
Faced with the prospect of double invasion in addition to internal revolt, Vichy's unhappy emissary pleaded for time to communicate with his Government. The French Colonial Government canceled military leaves, closed the port of Haiphong, suspended railway traffic throughout the colony, manned coastal defenses, barricaded streets and squares in Haiphong, prepared to evacuate women and children from coastal towns. A Japanese fleet steamed outside Haiphong, and Japanese troops on the Japanese-occupied Chinese island of Hainan prepared for active duty. News from French IndoChina stopped, blocked by censorship...
...rains, clouds of malarial mosquitoes-all make land attack out of the question. Furthermore, the problem narrows down for practical purposes to one of covering distances between naval bases (marked on the map by the flags of the nations to which they belong) and storming of a handful of coastal towns: Balikpapan, Tarakan, Batavia, Surabaya, Macassar, Singapore and a few others...