Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerry held the high ground inland from the coastal plain. If he had not been there in force when the invaders landed, he had quickly and cleverly redisposed himself. Now, looking down on the restricted area (eight miles deep, 14 miles long) where the Allies had landed six divisions plus armored force, he hammered the invaders...
...fleets, 1,200 planes strong, staged a savage, two-day mauling of the Luftwaffe's important French air bases around Paris. Weather apparently was holding Britain's heavy night-flying bombers in check, but the speedy Mosquitoes were out nightly, at tacking German targets as far inland as Berlin...
...performance of Bethlehem Steel was a different kind of surprise. Thanks largely to its shipbuilding operations, which pushed gross sales almost up to Big Steel's, Bethlehem totted up a profit of $32,124,592, up 25% from 1942. Inland Steel held its own for the year, with profit steady...
...British soldiers crouched on the dark beaches, waited for ambushes, hunted for snipers. None was seen. German batteries four miles inland kept their peace. Of the few Germans in sight, four were drunks caught in a staff car, four others were found asleep. The few casualties were caused by mines. Wrote astonished Associated Pressman Don Whitehead: "It was so easy . . . American troops are standing with their mouths open and shaking their heads in utter amazement...
...installed a rigid daily training schedule for his crews, taught them to fly and fight a really "hot" aircraft. By midsummer the Marauders tackled the broad assignment of pounding the Luftwaffe's northwestern French airfields. By October Anderson could report that the enemy squadrons had been pushed inland 40 miles. He kept at it, developed new tactics for evading flak, trained his bombardiers to needlepoint precision...