Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German mass air attacks, as distinct from sporadic raids, showed a definite pattern. First they went after the naval bases and coastal air defenses-Portland, Plymouth, Dover, Southampton. Next they pressed inland looking for R. A. F. bases and aircraft factories. On Aug. 15, eleven bombers penetrated fighter and anti-aircraft defenses and reached Croydon, Britain's greatest airport, ten miles from London's heart. The British said all the raiders were destroyed, but so were hangars and shops at Croydon and many a neighboring house. On Aug. 16 they stepped up their pace to 2,500 planes...
...present 725 to 7,000 or more. Stinson had a parts plant at Wayne, Mich.; Vultee could use that. Finally, by immediately expanding Stinson's 180,000 square feet to 900,000 or more, Vultee would be one of the first major companies to develop a new "inland" defense plant, long wanted by the Army. That could be a political advantage...
...Navy is no less hard at work at its inner defenses along the Inland Passage. For if Kodiak and Dutch Harbor are well defended an invader is likely to make his first thrust there. With a toe hold in Alaska's Panhandle he might end the supply lines of the northern bases while he strengthened his position for raiding against northwest U. S. Big Navy base in the Panhandle will be at Sitka, but other U. S. bases are being set up at Juneau and Ketchikan. A few weeks ago the Indian inhabitants of Metlakatla, on U. S.-owned...
...beaches with barbed wire and machine-gun nests, some of them made of bathing machines (bath houses on wheels) filled with pebbles. Tank traps, road blocks, concealed artillery filled the defense zone to a depth of 20 miles (see pictures, p. 31). Mobile and mechanized forces were poised farther inland, to be rushed wherever needed. The system was the same, with improvements based on bitter experience, as the one which Sir Alan constructed between Lille and the Somme last winter while the B. E. F. Second Corps, which he commanded, was marking time. Observers believe that, had the French commanders...
...south. Northernmost and strongest is the stretch from the Strait of Florida to the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti. Florida's Strait is full of shoals, has well-defined channels, is well within the range of aircraft operating from Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami, Pensacola and dozens of inland fields. To the east the 706 islands of the Bahamas protect it, forming a tactical screen, an ideal area for submarines, destroyers, advanced aircraft bases. Except for attack by an overwhelming naval force, the Florida passage is invulnerable. Five hundred miles east of the Strait, between Cuba and Haiti, lies...