Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between U.S. forces on Leyte and the inviting western island of Mindoro was the whole complex of the Visayan Islands, largely held by the Japanese. On many of the islands (see map), Filipino guerrillas working with U.S. officers had seized control of great areas, which dominated some of the straits. Within these areas there could be no Jap airfields, few or no observation posts. So the bold stroke would not be a desperate stroke...
...still seething with the Greek crisis, he announced that, with Britain's consent, Russia would extend her western frontier to the Curzon line. Poland would be compensated by about half of East Prussia, including Danzig, so that she would have a Baltic coast of some 200 miles (see map). She would also receive unspecified parts of eastern Germany to which Poland had historical claims. Presumably this meant parts of Silesia...
From Tin Pan Alley to Broadway was an easy right turn and ft om there Rose went on to operating all over the map: in Manhattan with a succession of nightclubs (Casino de Paree, Casa Mañana, the still flourishing Diamond Horseshoe), at the Centennial Fair in Fort Worth (at a wage of $1,000 a day, at San Francisco's, Cleveland's and bushing's fairs. The Aquacade alone netted him $2,000,000 after taxes...
...snaked in past Pachai, only 65 miles east of Kweiyang, apparently had bypassed the Chinese units set out for distant defense of the city's rail and road approaches. Another strong enemy column had speared beyond Hochih, stood astride the railroad only 75 miles southeast of Kweiyang (see map...
...Americans of Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army were striking north along the Rhine from Strasbourg, to form the southern claw of another pincers. It would not be complete until Lieut. General George S. Patton's advancing right wing broke into the Saar (see map...