Word: dakar
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...great coastal belt embracing the Allied ports of Freetown, Takoradi, Lagos and Accra, feeding the new air and surface supply routes to Egypt, the rest of the Middle East and Russia. Furthermore, if the Axis was right, U.S. forces were moving into positions from which they could attack Dakar...
...Dakar's Governor Pierre Boisson prepared to evacuate European (mostly French) women and children. (Dakar's military commander, General Paul Felix Barrau, was in Algiers burying his wife and son, who were killed in a French plane crash last fortnight...
...Dispatches "from the French border" reported that Vichy submarines had sneaked past Gibraltar and reinforced strong French naval forces in Dakar's harbor...
...Dakar? Allied seizure of Dakar alone would be mainly a defensive measure, depriving the Germans of a position from which they could attack the Allies' trans-African routes and the Atlantic waterway feeding those routes. But Allied action, once begun, need not stop at Dakar. A really effective African offensive might include simultaneous or successive moves against Casablanca and other key points on the long French African coast between Dakar and the Mediterranean. Every move up that coast would be a move to: 1) cut off Rommel's forces in their rear; 2) bar the Germans...
...barriers: the jungles of the Congo, which isolate British South Africa from most of the continent, and the Sahara desert, which divides the Mediterranean littoral (now mostly Vichy-and Axis-held) from the more habitable portion of the tropics lying north of the Congo (see map). By cleaning out Dakar, Timbuktu and other small holdings, the United Nations would have this central belt within their grasp...