Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic conveyor belt may start moving soon. According to reports published last fall, and in the Daily News last week, Army fields in Greenland are or soon will be ready for use. The Army already has airfields in Iceland, where U.S. Major General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel has taken over the command of all troops from Britain's Major General Henry Osborne Curtis. Last week General Curtis received the Distinguished Service Medal, first U.S. decoration awarded to a Briton in World...
...only way to cut sinkings is by port-to-port convoy-a thing which is impossible for coastal shipping at a time when the U.S. Navy is busy convoying to Australia, to Iceland, to the Middle East. But the U.S. Navy has begun to develop a substitute which may prove to be a lifeline-saver: convoy by blimp...
Hitler, who loves surprise, might surprise the world this spring and summer by striking west instead of east. He might attack Iceland, or Ireland, or Scotland, or England...
...Europe; they insisted that the one supremely vital front was in Russia, that the one Allied task, above all, was to supply that front. MacArthur in Australia, the vital Mid-East, Chiang Kai-shek in China, General Wavell in India, Britain herself, U.S. forces stationed from Hawaii to Iceland-all these called as well for supply. Last week a London naval analyst listed Britain's most important lines (the Indian Ocean, her route to Russia via Murmansk, her north Atlantic route from the U.S.), and said: "If it is not possible to safeguard all three without incurring disastrous losses...
...most Americans at home, this was the first direct word from their soldiers in the field. The men in Bataan, Australia, the Middle East, Iceland, Ireland also had their innings. For them, as well as the home front the Army put Secretary of War Stimson, Lieut. General Lesley McNair, commander of the Army Ground Force, and the commanders of the four U.S. home armies on the air. Their soldierly words, though guarded, managed to convey a reassuring outline of the growing U.S. Army...