Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drove through heavy waves of sweet-smelling air where hundreds of dead Germans, pocketed in mountain hideouts, had been pulverized by the artillery barrage. Whole hillsides were reduced to rubble. The crests of the rocky knolls strung out along the entire breadth of the Gothic Line were sprayed with dead Germans wiped out by long-range artillery and bypassed by hard-pushing infantry...
...mountains above Rimini the world's smallest republic, claiming to be Europe's oldest state, with 38 square miles of mountain territory and 12,900 inhabitants, accepted its fate with dignity. San Marino's Government decided that its Army of 78 men could not oppose the Wehrmacht, yielded to the German demand to open its roads. Allied artillery replied with gunfire...
Thin High Air. Like the barnstormers of the 1920s, their pilots have been flying light single-engined planes, edging them over the Hump by instinct and seat-of-the-pants navigation. Toughest route is that flown by Mountain States Aviation, Inc., whose one single-engined Beechcraft biplane has been successfully making the 286-mile loop from Denver through northwestern Colorado since July 24. On each trip it must fly through five mountain passes higher than 9,000 feet (highest: Corona Pass, 11,680 ft.). Other lines now operating are Massey & Ransom, and the Pueblo Air Services. Colorado Airlines, Inc. operated...
...units-perhaps for most- it was a mop-up. TIME Correspondent Will Lang, accompanying casehardened veterans of a division which had fought through Sicily and Italy, cabled that its soldiers found the southern France campaign "the damndest one ever: all marching and little fighting, through some of the prettiest mountain country most G.I.s had ever seen, chasing Germans through lovely villages unscarred...
Only two followed suit. The five newly-arrived delegates from EAM's mountain headquarters sized the situation up, marched straight to Papandreou to receive their portfolios. For the first time since the Nazis came to Greece, Greeks had a united government. Sophocles moved from his three-room suite at Shepheard's Hotel to an austere single room...