Word: coastland
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...display for what it was-a climax to extensive invasion maneuvers in Britain - the Luftwaffe sent up few planes to be shot down by lurking Allied airmen. But, through a night and the following day, the R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth Air Force attacked a selected strip of French coastland, and targets behind it, exactly as they will do on the day of real invasion in the West...
Next day medium bombers hit Boulogne. Other formations, including Fortresses, bombed and strafed every airfield from which German planes could have taken off to repel invaders. Swarms of fighters, on escort and on independent sweeps, took and held absolute command of the sky above the coastland. Behind the coastal area, near Paris, Fortresses and escorting Thunderbolt fighters staged a great raid with a double purpose: to bomb an aircraft-engine works and to engage the only sizable force of German fighters which appeared over France that...
...shell the port. Planes bombed it. The Italians confessed that its fall was near. General Montgomery's eyes must have glinted as he remembered the interview he had given. Once Catania was his, the battle for Sicily could be little more than a battle for more coastland, then for Messina, if the Hermann Görings survived in enough strength to fight for that port. In Messina, Monty could look across three miles of water into Italy itself...