Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase in food production last year over average production in 1935-39 was not matched by a corresponding increase in storage facilities. Transportation, too, is lacking. The armed services now have their food warehouses filled, and reserves earmarked for invasion fronts are choking British and U.S. ports and inland terminals...
...initiative would not be theirs. When the Allies came, they would almost certainly land at many points, almost certainly make a selection later of the softest spots to develop their thrust inland. Some of the German troops would fight it out on the shore...
...where lighter craft had not done the job. Major General Lewis Brereton, boss of the Ninth (tactical) Air Force, which will give close support to the invasion, sent his mediums against the coast, airfields, railroad centers. Swarms of his fighter bombers also hacked from dawn to dusk, bored deeply inland...
Bombs for Everybody. Twice within a week the Fifteenth attacked the important railway center of Zagreb; other attacks centered on the port of Spalato (Split) and the inland town of Brod, headquarters of a Nazi tank corps. But these jobs were only part of a busy week's work for the Fifteenth Air Force...
...King's old-line left-hand man, Vice Admiral John S. McCain, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air), who now has nearly 750,000 airmen serving under him. Said he: the Navy had to tram near the coast, but the Army's "abandoned" airfields were nearly all inland; the Army would let them to the Navy only temporarily. The Committee accepted his explanation, with reservations...