Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
...American nation. For 2,000 miles, from Belem to Rio de Janeiro, there is not a single inch of railroad track, and highway facilities are very poorly developed. All traffic of any large dimensions must move either by coast-wise steamer or by slow portage over inland rivers...