Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their plight was part of the picture of the German disaster on the Eastern Front-a disaster which could not be wholly stated in terms of miles and pins on a map, of casualties and booty, of numbers of "populated places" retaken by the Russians. There were other eloquent little vignettes...
...Forces did their thundering bit with bombs; when they left, the F.F.I, took over, refreshing the damage. Everything was charted on a sabotage map in Allied headquarters, kept up to date by underground communications...
Hengyang Holds Out. About 100,000 Japanese had fought down 100 miles from Changsha past Hengyang, straddling the Hankow-Canton railway on a 50-mile front (see map). In the face of Chinese high command blunders and confusion, the Japanese power reached farther south in this area than ever before. North to meet them from Canton drove another Japanese force. If the two joined, China would be split by a Japanese-garrisoned railway...
Allied troops in north Burma and southeast China were only 26 miles apart across the savage mountains. They fought toward each other in wild, monsoon-sodden terrain (see map). But even if they succeeded in joining, it would be only a token. The real consideration in this remote. Godforsaken battleground is a road-and the road has to wait for clean-up in the rear, and until other terrain suitable for road-building is cleared by the fighters...
...Japanese took a leaf from the strategy book of General U.S. Grant. As Grant had sliced off the western half of the Confederacy by his Mississippi campaign, the Japs worked, with fearsome force, to cut off the western side of the clamp fastened on the Empire (see map) by Allied strategy...