Word: inlander
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...Axis sea. The British and the Maltese still hold Malta (see cover); they still have Cyprus, Syria, Palestine and Egypt at one end of the Mediterranean, Gibraltar at the other. British convoys, British and U.S. warships and planes still dispute with the Axis the mastery of the greatest inland...
...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...
...fighters were shot down. An estimated 500 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded. The announcement that the long-range P-38s had been used foreshadowed a new technique in aerial bombardment.* The raids on Kiska also foreshadowed the day when U.S air power, flowing north over the new Canadian inland air route, may blast the Japs out of Kiska-and move on toward Tokyo...
...merely forgotten to shave, led the attackers in. They had a tough job ahead of them. Batteries of German cannon and machine guns, perched on the cliffs and hidden in caves, could turn an enfilading fire on the beaches, which bristled with barbed wire. From deep fortifications further inland artillery could lay down a curtain of fire offshore. Along new military roads and railways German reinforcements could be swiftly concentrated against the attackers (see p. 29). After the assault and occupation would come the problem of withdrawal-for this was a raid, not an invasion. Dieppe was a nest...
...Commando barges, carrying also a detachment of U.S. Rangers, moved shoreward. Along the French coast anti-aircraft guns barked fretfully. R.A.F. bombers, sent ahead, were softening up inland positions. But the Nazis might not have guessed what was brewing, if ill luck had not overtaken the raiders groping into Berneval...