Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain road out of the Alsatian village of Climbach was crawling with German supply trucks. Climbach had to be taken; a task force of infantrymen, tanks and tank destroyers of the 103rd Division set out to do the job. In a scout car, jouncing along at the head of the little column, was Lieut. Charles Thomas, a Negro company commander in the Negro 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion...
Army engineer detachments, 65% of them Negro troops, could stand by the Ledo-Burma Road and proudly watch the supply trucks roll up to China. Through two rain-lashed monsoon seasons they had labored, helped string an all-weather pavement over 1,044 miles of mountain jungle, helped build some 600 bridges. Now they could add up the cost: for every mile, an estimated $1,000,000 and a U.S. soldier's life...
...Field Marshal, spring and better weather might mean an all-out assault upon his lines. Already, at some points, the Allies were attacking. Using tactics old when General James Wolfe scaled Quebec's heights in 1759, Major General George P. Hayes's roth Mountain Division was jolting the German loose from the Apennine positions upon which he had based the center of his line. South of Bologna expert climbers set ropes on sheer cliff faces. Up those ropes swarmed the troops to catch the Nazis by surprise, smash them back five miles through jagged country. U.S. troops, supported...
...Count as Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, widow of the Fascist foreign minister whom her father had had shot. With her was her latest lover, dandified Marchese Pucci, who had helped whisk her across the Swiss frontier when Mussolini fell. This strange pair descended periodically from their snug mountain chalet to dance, dine and wine...
...applied for three microwave bands, at 1,900 megacycles and above. Said Pierson: if it gets these allocations, Raytheon will start work at once on the eastern (Boston, New York, Washington) and West Coast terminals of the microwave system. Raytheon plans to build a string of stations on western mountain tops, from Mt. Adams, Washington, to Mt. Whitney, California. Eventually the east and west terminals will be connected by chains of relay transmitters at about 30-mile intervals across the country...