Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maison-Blanche fell without a fight; U.S. paratroops seized Blida airdrome. U.S troops marched quickly inland to cut the Algiers-Oran railway. U.S. and British fighters and light bombers flew in to the captured airdromes from carriers; other bombers arrived, probably from Gibraltar...
Then the U.S. land and air strategy in Morocco became clear: to advance by land up an excellent highway toward Casablanca, at the same time to fan still farther inland toward the Moroccan army's chief base at Marrakech, 100 miles from the sea in the high Atlas Mountains. At Marrakech, if anywhere, army units loyal to Vichy would probably make their stand. But with Marrakech in hand, the U.S. troops would also have the southern terminus of Morocco's railway system and command of a rail route to Casablanca itself...
...doused duckhunting yet. Shotgun shells weren't short or rationed (despite WPB freezing of all 12-gauge shells for aerial-gunnery training, war-plant protection and riot squads). Not all coastal marshes and inland waters were restricted. And most comforting of all, the Government is counting on the sportsman's annual 54,000,000-lb. bag of waterfowl and small game to help fill the U.S. dinner plate...
Last summer the Club was preparing to fly with the C.A.P., when a government order prohibiting ordinary civilian flying within 40 miles of the coast forced them to send their planes inland. Had the Club owned their own flying craft, they would probably have been able to register it with the civilian patrol organization. However, the aircraft company from which they rented their ships was obliged to call all their planes out of the vital areas...
...Allies know that the Germans were trying to improve the Balkans' wretched inland communications (roads, railways); that they were rebuilding the Greek naval bases at Salamis (which the Luftwaffe wrecked in 1941); that Luftwaffe General Alexander Löhr had air forces and airborne troops waiting. London and Washington last week found it hard to believe that the Germans had actually stripped their Aegean defenses; perhaps the forces there had only been redistributed. Or perhaps the story was true, and the Germans were throwing everything into another drive on Egypt, to precede a general Middle Eastern offensive...