Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south, might still be regarded as defenses against Japan. And Pravda's recent sound-off against Alexander II's sale of Alaska for a "few paltry millions" might be so much wind & fury. But the Soviets have a flying base at East Cape on the North Siberian mainland, are building a new station on Big Diomede and both are guns that point at Alaska...
...Italians are lightly armored, designed especially to catch and destroy destroyers. Two British destroyers spotted them first and flashed word to the Sydney, which was coming down from the north, inconspicuous in her light grey-blue battle paint, among the small islands sprinkled between Crete and the Greek mainland...
...British started digging a 13-foot ditch from the Mediterranean to the Bay of Algeciras through the flat, sandy neck (1,300 yd. wide), joining the Rock and the Spanish mainland. Evidently they had reason to expect an attack on Gibraltar, either by loud-talking Spain or by German "tourists" with whom Spain is now crawling...
...machine-gun what the German High Command called "troop concentrations." Eyewitnesses reported the blasting of lines of trucks carrying tomatoes and potatoes, the slaughter of a score of civilians at one dock in Guernsey. Following the bombings, the Channel Islands were taken over by German troops from the mainland, who scoured the shores and interiors for hidden British observers left behind...
South Anchor of the British blockade is that towering prong of limestone, Hades-hot in summer, 2½ miles long and 1,396 ft. high, which points like a torpedo from the Spanish mainland southward across the 15-mile Strait of Gibraltar separating Europe and Africa...