Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied Tanks Inland...
...Inland, in the midlands belt north of Oslo, British and Norwegian troops supported by Allied tanks appeared on the basis of unofficial reports to be pushing the Germans back in bitter fighting southwest of war-wrecked Hamar...
...Norwegian military spokesman said 1000 German soldiers were isolated in the town of Narvik itself, 1500 at Gratanger, 25 miles north of the port where the Nazis were lured into a trap, and nearly 100 on the hills of Rombak Fjord jutting inland from Narvik...
...tall fighting people of Germany marched into Denmark and Norway and some of the peaceful people of those countries-refugees, frightened liberals, Jews-fled to Sweden. From Malmö in Sweden, a short ferry ride from German-held Copenhagen, Swedes who had not seen war in their lifetimes moved inland. Well-fed Dutch burghers in cities near the German frontier packed up and went to Amsterdam; from Eindhoven a thousand women and children took the broad, flat road to Utrecht. Refugees from once-German Eupen and Malmédy had already fled toward Brussels. In the Danube Valley...
...still the hordes came on, and at week's end even the Finns had to admit the Russians had several footholds on the coastal front. Obvious aim was to penetrate inland and cut the vital lines of communication from Helsinki to Viipuri, then sweep around behind the Finns' last-ditch defenses in the Mannerheim Line. Many a Finn was constrained to admit that a moderately honorable peace would be preferable to gradual strangulation by Joseph Stalin's Molasseskrieg...