Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seventh Army advanced in the Vosges; the French First Army broke through the Belfort Gap. Still in reserve were the First Canadian Army, and the First Airborne Army, which may now bring off a successful Arnhem operation-at Arnhem or somewhere else...
...forces. One could fight up the Danubian gateway to Germany through Vienna to Linz, Munich and Nürnberg. The other could follow the Moravian gateway to northern Czechoslovakia-the Bohemian bastion.* Other Russian forces now before Cracow could move in to join the Bohemian drive through the Oder Gap...
...Retrievers. Last week the enemy's armor-tipped columns speared into Kweilin through the tired 35 divisions of China's "Old Ironsides," General Chang Fa-kwei. They closed in on Liuchow, and the eighth of our air bases was missing. Simultaneously the enemy drove for Nanning. The gap between the Japs' north and south China forces already had been closed; now, if the drive for Nanning succeeded, the enemy would have through lines from Manchuria to Indo-China and thence to Singapore. The Fourteenth Air Force would be pushed back hundreds of miles from the South China...
...Wallace Phillips stated emphatically last week that British exports would decline if imperial preference is abolished. To close the gap between essential imports and essential exports, said he, the British are considering many plans distasteful...
Only the 60-mile gap around Kweilin stood between the Japs and their immediate strategic objectives in China-a continuous 2,000-mile front and communications system from Siberia to the South China Sea. Chungking, desperately hoping to make Kweilin the Stalingrad of Free China, worked mightily to stave off disaster...