Word: hinterlander
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...that when the war with Germany ends, the war with Japan will keep it absorbed for another couple of years, while the East gets the jump on it in reconverting to peace. Oregon and Washington have had similar booms, now have similar worries. And the industrial fates of the hinterland western states, as suppliers of metals and other raw materials, are closely linked with those of the Coast...
...western tip: the Japs' two Cape Gloucester air strips, 250 miles from Rabaul. With an accurate pre-invasion bombardment, with Sherman tanks, heavy artillery and pillbox-killing flamethrowers, they had overwhelmed the Jap defenses in four days and a few hours. Now they pressed into the jungle hinterland, where a Jap remnant had dragged artillery to shell the airfield. Enemy resistance was fanatic. At this spot alone, almost 1,000 Japs were slain, many in suicidal counterattacks. Reported Navy Secretary Frank Knox: for 117 marines killed at Cape Gloucester, 2,100 Japs had died...
...Guinea, jungle-wise Australians mopped up the Huon Peninsula. Along rugged, malaria-ridden trails, with the help of Matilda tanks, they pushed converging columns toward Jap outposts. Their immediate objective: to clear the enemy from the hinterland of Finschhaven, the port captured almost two months ago by a bold amphibious stroke (TIME, Oct. 4). From Finschhaven some 70 miles of blue water lead to Jap-held New Britain: across that island's curving 300 miles lies Rabaul...
...Hukawng Valley (see map). In the Chin hills to the south and west, where opium-smoking tribes men are still loyal, the British claimed the west bank of the Chindwin. The campaign has a limited but sharply important objective: to pry a right of way through the Jap-held hinterland for the builders of the Ledo Road (TIME. Oct. 11). In time, if all goes well, it will link India's Assam to China's Yünnan, reopen a channel of ground supply for the long-enduring people of Chiang Kaishek...
...famine provinces of Bombay, Madras, Bengal, similar scenes prevailed. At the height of India's planting season, hinterland peasantry left their fields...