Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best estimate of remaining Italian strength and its disposition: Thirty-five infantry divisions (about 12,000 men in each) in Yugoslavia and Greece; about twelve divisions on the Italian mainland; about eight in Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica; and about six in France; an air force of about 1,400 operational planes (probably half are fighters, very few are heavy bombers...
Like a giant causeway over the wastes of the North Pacific, the Aleutians stretch about 1,000 miles from the Alaskan mainland (see map). On to windswept, fog-washed Attu at their western tip, American troops swarmed last week...
...Canada's Rear Admiral L. W. Murray was given command of a joint U.S.Canadian anti-submarine program which, dovetailing with Britain's R.A.F., would give air and naval protection to Europe-bound convoys. With a chain of bases extending from the Canadian mainland across Greenland and Iceland to Britain, Allied long-range bombers would provide mile-by-mile protection and reconnaissance. The Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy had long been bearing much of the Atlantic burden; the appointment of Admiral Murray indicated that they will bear more...
This broadcast was for Jap ears only. Speaking for the War Ministry, General Sato said that in order to destroy Americans, "who are stubborn and like to fight," Japan must prepare to bomb the U.S. mainland. Said cruel-eyed General Sato: "To destroy the fighting spirit of the American people is most important for the conclusion of the war." Furthermore, said he, the American fighting spirit is based on American productive power ("the greatest in the world"), and bombing is the way to destroy that power. General Sato then added a qualification which was scarcely noticed by the U.S. press...
...weather and distance to solve before they can effectively bomb either Alaska or the U.S. proper from Kiska. A more immediate possibility is that they may try to use Kiska as a base for operations against the U.S. air base Dutch Harbor, which is 600 miles nearer the mainland...