Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pietro Badoglio's regime got the strongest shot in the arm it has so far received from the Allies. The Allied Military Government withdrew from Sicily, Sardinia, and the Italian mainland south of the Salerno-Bari line...
...workers. It was an admission that this was total war, and all Japan was told that Bushido was not an exclusive spiritual cloak for those who fight; it was also for those who produce. Said Tokyo radio: "Step by step and moment by moment [the enemy] is approaching our mainland. . . . To support the spirit and follow the souls of the 4,500 men [on Tarawa and Makin] who preferred death to dishonor is the best way to fight. . . . The 100 million people [of Japan] must arouse themselves and must follow the glory of the 4,500 heroes...
...since the fall of la patrie in 1940 had the sons of France faced the Boche on the Western Europe mainland. Now, they mixed with the enemy in fierce night skirmishes, took startled, scared German prisoners. They used American weapons, wore American uniforms with French helmets.* But in their duffel bags some of them carried the worn army tunics of the Third Republic: they would put them on the day they returned to France...
Mediterranean strategists have some good arguments in reply. One of their best points: whatever airmen in Britain may think, the planes "diverted" to North Africa and southern Europe played an enormous part in an enormous blow at German confidence, helped to open the first breach in mainland Europe. An important effect of that breach, and of deepening it, will eventually be to confront the Luftwaffe with a two-or-three-front air war over Germany itself. A small beginning could be seen this week in the report that bombers and fighters based in the Mediterranean area had attacked objectives...
Fifty miles across at their narrowest, the Tsushima Straits are Japan's historic doors to the Asiatic mainland. Over them centuries ago Regent Hideyoshi's armada sailed to battle the Koreans and send home 38,000 enemy ears pickled in wine. Upon them in 1905 crusty Admiral Togo smashed the Russian fleet. Presumably the submarine knocking on the door last week was American. It had achieved one of World War IPs most daring submarine penetrations of enemy waters, a feat ranking with German Günther Prien's entry at Scapa Flow, the Jap invasion of Pearl...