Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan of the Fifteenth Army Group.* The essence of the plan was simply that if you take the coasts of an island, you have the island. The air attacks on Sicily's center and its northerly ports of entry, even the ground marches toward railway and other inland centers, supported the battles for the coasts. The U.S. Seventh Army, seizing the southwestern coast, conducted a great backstopping operation, holding down and drawing off sizable enemy forces from the decisive eastern sector. To that canny soldier and conqueror, General Montgomery, fell the task of taking the eastern coast...
...inland! Keep moving...
...breakfast of K rations when the telephone rang in divisional headquarters. The message said that 30 to 40 German tanks had attacked the 2nd Battalion of the division's 16th infantry regiment. That battalion held the division's right flank on a hill between Gela and the inland town of Niscemi...
...beaches, the fighting which made the rest of the U.S. invasion possible. On the ist Division's left flank, 48-year-old, Texas-born Major General Lucian K. Truscott's 3rd Infantry Division seized Licata and its neighboring airfields, then expanded its position westward and inland to take Canicatti and seize the old walled port of Agrigento and its innumerable, well-placed gun positions...
...Protestant missionary work have gained about 1,000,000 adherents to various churches: Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Pentecostal. Fourteen-fifteenths of the work goes on in a 300-mile-wide coastal zone extending from Rio Grande do Sul to Para; the tiny remainder lies in the vast inland rural areas...