Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the cadets watched, officers demonstrated some lore of survival. One found a swampy spot, dug up the edible roots of cattails. Another showed how to twist a fish line from tough inner bark, whittle a hook from a thorned twig. A third whacked out a four-foot section of wild grapevine which dripped a cupful of clear water, surprisingly sweet and cool to the taste...
Area of Despair. At best, any German plan of inner defense must be a plan of despair...
...temporary security. Occupied Denmark and Norway lie between Britain and the coast of north eastern Germany. But they are no places for rear-guard economy; they are places to be held as strongly and fiercely as the Germans would fight for their own coast. For, if they fall, the inner fortress will have been breached...
...Boulogne, the port of northern France chosen for a pre-invasion test last week, the Germans are only 200 mi. from the Reich. For all military purposes, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Channel coast of France are walls of the inner fortress. On that coast last week, not a Nazi gun spoke when a British troop convoy hove within sight and range. Airmen sweeping northwestern France got the impression that both ground and aerial defenses were astoundingly weak; London heard that the Germans had withdrawn 13 of their 34 divisions from western France and the Lowlands. Either the Nazis...
...forces made another jab at Japan's inner defenses this week. The Japs had scarcely sucked in their breaths after the carrier raid on Marcus Island when U.S. bombers hit again, this time in the north, in the Kurile Islands...