Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had been two main epicentres of bombing: a large arc in the thickly populated western suburbs of London running through Uxbridge, Staines, Weybridge; and the coastal airports, which the Germans had to render untenable before an invasion would be anything more than a dream. Early in the week the Nazis claimed that three of these airports-Manston, Lympne, Hawkinge-had been blasted out of service. Stories leaked through from London confirming this claim, but were later stoutly denied...
...there was still plenty of evidence for the direct Channel attack. Big guns were not rolled up to Boulogne and other points to pock the barren cliffs of Kent; they were probably there to protect a landing. The Luftwaffe was very definitely still trying to knock out coastal airports to push back fighter resistance...
...Made a concentrated raid on the British coastal Army base of Mersa Matruh, end of the Egyptian railroad toward Libya...
...members are Lieut. General Stanley Dunbar Embick, Commander of the Fourth Corps Area, charged with Atlantic coastal defense; Captain Harry W. Hill of the Navy's War Plans' Division; New York City's omnipresent Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; Commander Forrest Sherman of the Navy and Lieut. Colonel Joseph T. McNarney of the Army Air Corps, who will alternate on aviation questions; and the State Department's Assistant Chief of the European Affairs Division John Dewey Hickerson...
...morning when a British coastal convoy of 18 ships, strung out for a mile and guarded by destroyers, steamed under the tall chalk cliffs of Dover, a series of four bright flashes, closely spaced, followed by heavy smoke puffs, were seen on the French Coast, 20-odd miles away. About 80 seconds later four geysers spouted in the Channel near the convoy, accompanied by the crashing roar of four big shells exploding. At last the Germans were trying out their threat to "command the Channel with coast artillery...