Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperate men gathered about the map tables at German supreme headquarters the reports must have been coming in like hammer blows to the heart. Now their Italian line collapsed. Two of their last, best armies, driven from the Apennines, were scurrying northward toward the Po River and Lombardy's plains. Bologna, pivot of German resistance, was gone...
...Kassel, tankmen of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division (First Army) ran into a furious battle last week. Germans leveled antiaircraft guns, fought for the little town of Bromskirchen as if it were Berchtesgaden itself. Finally the Americans silenced the guns and learned why that pin point on the map had been so important to the Germans : aboard flatcars on a railroad siding were a dozen new V-2 rockets. They were taken intact...
...competitors in Mexico know better than to judge the potential strength of their new rival by such standards. Fledgling Aerovias is backed by the million dollar fortune of able, affable Thomas E. Braniff. His American company, Braniff Airways, Inc., is the fifth largest airline in the U.S. (see map). Many Braniffmen are already on the job in Mexico, sharing their operating know-how with Aerovias' eager Mexican employes...
Many months ago Ursula found R.A.F. Flight Sergeant Donald Meese hiding in a Silesian barn after escape from a prison camp, hid him from pursuers, gave him clothes and a map for escape. Ursula followed later, married him in Cracow, went to England with...
...Flynn's company of Rangers parachutes behind the Japanese lines and destroys an enemy radar station. So far so good, but getting back is another story. Heading for a clearing to be picked up by a transport plane, they find themselves cut off by the Japanese. Directed to another map reference they fight their way to it through half the Japs in Burma and arrive to meet the Allied glider fleet...