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...possible that the Yellow River has changed its course stealthily since I left China last autumn? Could it have been a military secret? Or is James Cutter's map in your July 13 issue a prediction...
...Hitler is forearmed. He knows that the main blow of any full-scale invasion must fall somewhere between Brest and Den Helder, where The Netherlands had its chief naval base (see map, p. jo). Over the area where they first seek an invasion bridgehead, the Allies must have absolute command of the air. They must be able to cover the invasion with fighters based on Britain, and the actual offensive radius of Britain's fighter squadrons is much less than most people suppose-about 100 miles. Only the fortified stretch of German Europe along the Channel, the near Atlantic...
Fifty U.S. Army officers faced a huge map of the world in the University of Virginia's Clark Hall last week. Somewhere on this map, each man knew, he might have a job some day. The Army was training its first class of military governors for future U.S.-occupied foreign lands...
Colonel Caleb V. Haynes led us to a huge Chinese map and let his finger come to rest on the town of Kiukiang, the strategic Japanese-held Yangtze River port below Hankow. Chinese Intelligence had reported that 30,000 Jap troops were concentrating there for a move toward Hankow...
...first step was to move a landing force from his ill-selected, oft-bombed positions at Lae and Salamaua (see map), barred from Port Moresby by great mountains. He would set the force down at Buna, near the head of a mountain road, primitive but passable, that led across to Port Moresby. Thus he could get at the thorn. Once he got rid of the thorn, he could launch his attack at thinly held northern Australia or spread east through the flanking island chain as his restless, never-idle sense of movement dictated...