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...vastly more efficient arterial system is built up in India, is that it would leave intact that very intricate and dangerously efficient system of supply below Formosa, taking in Singapore, Siam, Indo-China and lower Burma. The Japanese would be able to move forces on the Allied right flank far faster than the Allies could move their own main forces...
...brooded, fearful that this new contract was a flank attack on the Little Steel formula and might drive the U.S. into a dizzy wages-prices race...
...Russia was still the first front, massive and man-consuming. The Wehrmacht found no rest at the Dnieper, only more blood, battle and bafflement. The Red Army crunched through Zaporozhe, grappled fiercely for Gomel, Kiev and Melitopol, crashed through the German lines between the key cities, battered at the flank of the enemy's Dnieper loop, threatened with disaster his powerful forces in the Crimea...
Fighter airdromes on the Trobriand and Woodlark islands and on the edges of Huon Gulf gave MacArthur and Kenney fighter protection for their bombers on the Rabaul run. The Fifth had already hit the right flank of the divided Japanese air strength at Wewak, where the Japs have lost about 500 planes since mid-August. Next, the Thirteenth Air Force in the Solomons softened the Japs in an aerial battle over Kahili, southeast of Rabaul...
...Adriatic to Termoli. The amphibious landing in their rear had caught the Germans by surprise, so completely that a major had been captured in bed. The enemy's next reaction had been alarm, for the Eighth's rapid advance could develop into a flank attack against the Germans on the peninsula's other side. From the Volturno front Field Marshal Albert Kesselring rushed the 16th Armored Division, veteran of Stalingrad and Salerno, to counterattack at Termoli...