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Word: inlanders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four hours and 15 minutes after the first troops landed, American infantry was two and a half miles inland, moving toward the first yellow coral airstrip. Although opposition developed at the secondary landing on the east flank, the beachhead was secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: From Rendova to Biak | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...were first used) will plow and batter the Continent, preparing it for the onward sweep of infantrymen and armor. Western Europe will quake then with cannonading greater than last week's Allied barrage at the Gustay Line. Artillery will determine the pace and final success of the push inland. With few important qualifications, the old adage still stands: God is on the side with the best cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - God and Cannon | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...were first used) will plow and batter the Continent, preparing it for the onward sweep of infantrymen and armor. Western Europe will quake then with cannonading greater than last week's Allied barrage at the Gustay Line. Artillery will determine the pace and final success of the push inland. With few important qualifications, the old adage still stands: God is on the side with the best cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - God and Cannon | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...Hollandia there were crated Japanese airplane engines, heavy guns, trucks, tractors, a radio station, ammunition dumps, medical supplies, food - including beer, wine, French champagne, British marmalade. But there were few, if any, Japs. The strong American forces which had landed at Tanahamera and Humboldt Bays pushed rapidly inland this week, spearheaded by road-building bulldozers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Where Were They? | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...blow came three days after Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten moved from inland New Delhi to Kandy on the island of Ceylon off India's southern tip. Under command of salty British Admiral Sir James F. Somerville, the task-force carriers turned into a dawn wind, launched their planes near Sumatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Complication in the South | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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