Word: eastward
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...news last week was fragmentary. Virtually all that General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters revealed was that Allied forces were moving steadily eastward from Algeria. The advance was four-pronged -one prong aimed at the Gulf of Gabes in order to cut any communication with Rommel's troops in Libya, the other prongs designed to make a scythelike sweep against Bizerte and Tunis. In a ring around Bizerte and Tunis the Axis forces...
...Chinese reports said that 30,000 Japanese, replete with collapsible boats and other war gear, were massed across the Salween River apparently ready to strike toward Kunming, 230 miles eastward on the route to Chungking...
...Aussie's advance proved the wisdom of their caution. All along the terrible track eastward they found reminders of overzealous progress-emaciated, unwounded Jap corpses littering the jungle, dead whose stomachs contained poisonous fruits, undigested...
...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...