Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the airports of French North Africa in Allied hands, land-based Allied planes will be able to defend British convoys headed eastward through the Mediterranean. With the rail and highway route from Casablanca to Tunis, the Allies will not need Mediterranean convoys -even fighters can be flown to Malta and Egypt by easy stages...
...wounded co-pilot and continued his flight. U.S. troops landed at the excellent port of Philippeville, 210 miles east of Algiers, and by the end of the second day were within 60 miles of the border of Tunisia. The U.S. ground forces, once they were ready to move eastward, had direct rail and road routes to southeastern Tunisia and its "Little Maginot Line" of desert forts and pillboxes pointed the other way-toward Libya...
...Fiji native is as black as his New Guinea cousin and wears the same unsanitary mop of fuzzy black hair, but usually shorter. He was the last of the Melanesians in that race's eastward sweep across the Pacific. But the Fiji native is in danger of losing his majority on his islands. When the idle Fiji would not cultivate the sugar fields assiduously, the British went to India for recruits. That was about 65 years ago. So prodigiously do Indians breed that there are now 94,000 Indians to 102,000 Fijis, 2,000 Chinese, 5,000 Europeans...
Geographically, the easier invasion route is eastward through Grozny to the Caspian, thence south along the coast to Baku. Here again nature aids Russia. Halfway down the coast toward Baku is the Derbent gateway, where impenetrable mountains narrow the coastal shelf to a six-mile strip. Nature's fortifications have been improved by man, making Derbent a formidable obstacle...
...mandated Marshalls, 1,200 miles eastward toward Hawaii, protect Truk on one side. The rest of the Carolines surround the Truk group itself: many & many a tiny island like Makin may offer no real protection, but does insure the Japs of ample warning of assault upon Truk...