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...three years the South China Sea had been the "covered way" of Japan's outer fortress. Through its reaches, protected by thousands of miles of outposts, Japanese convoys could ply between the home islands and the conquered south...
...tank. But the Germans halted momentarily. Then the main weight of the enemy veered around the milling fight, probed at other entrances to Bastogne. Wherever the Germans poked there were Americans. The Germans kept on wheeling around the town, by the next day had it surrounded, a little island fortress in a swirling sea of gunfire. Headquarters, hoping for a weather break for air attack, radioed Bastogne for its positions. Replied Bastogne: "We're the hole in the doughnut...
...Germans had hoped to make another Stalingrad of stately, romantic Budapest. The city was a natural fortress in the first major defense line of Germany's deep backyard. The heights of Buda, rising some 770 feet above the Danube, commanded the approaches to Pest. The Germans had time to rim the city with strong points. The 950-foot river itself was a formidable last ditch. The Germans had men and machines. The Russians had to bring both over a tenuous supply line that looped far around the Carpathians...
...Saint-Vith one unit, although bypassed and terribly mauled, held like a fortress for six days. In the Stavelot and Malmédy sectors the Americans had taken heavy attrition, had knocked out more than 200 tanks. They had successfully prevented the Germans from exploiting their surprise...
Soft Job. These two basic instruments are supplemented by a number of others: a gyro flux gate compass (TIME, Oct. 25), an automatic control for the supercharger, electronic devices to open and close the engine cowl flaps for proper cooling. The Flying Fortress now has 323 instruments, of which five of the most important are automatic, gyro-operated controls...