Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these attacks, the one in the center seemed last week to have the greatest likelihood of early success. The Germans in their mountain positions elsewhere were set for siege. They had dug in for months. But in the center, the First was edging on to the plain of Tunis. If the hills beside it could be cleared-and some of them were cleared last week-then the Allies could eventually sweep to Tunis, divide or further compress the defenders, and drive the remnants into...
...next hour was full of our boys parachuting down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from...
...mile trip up to the plane took these men about six hours and 20 minutes. . . . They said that the toughest part of the trip tomorrow would be at the end crossing over some six glaciers and then finally climbing a mountain-only 400 feet of it and then sliding on the seat of our pants down the other side into their camp...
...Also shown in Moscow was Iran, a Soviet film picturing the busy Anglo-American supply line through Persia to Russia. Russian audiences saw the delivery of American planes to Red pilots; American technicians assembling other war goods, shipping them in U.S. trucks over mountain highways built or improved by British engineers...
...Cantabric Mountain range is an arm of Spain...