Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain regions. They mean to emulate the Partisans. Headquarters will be near Berchtesgaden, where Hitler, Mussolini, selected quislings and lesser German dignitaries can defy the Allies from the Wagnerian Berghof. Arms, supplies and lavish radio equipment are already being gathered. The radio will be used to guide a vast network of underground fanatics, enrolled under the slogan: "Join the permanent fight for European freedom...
This is a typical "commercial" on the Mosquito Network, a South Pacific branch of the Armed Forces Radio Service. U.S. Army doctors hope that the plug for Toujours Gai will lead G.I.s to use' their insect repellent, which not only smells bad but is also considered sissified by many fighting...
...Mosquito Network consists of just five* of AFRS's 100 stations and 200 public-address systems now established, from Greenland to China. But its tiny 50-watt voices are very welcome in a lonely area where short-and medium-wave reception is uncertain...
Meanwhile the Germans were tentative and irresolute, and hamstrung in trying to move men and supplies over a network of highways and railroads that had been wrecked with ruthless precision by superior Allied air power. While their main local reserves butted in vain against the British, they had been helpless to stop the American drive at Cherbourg...
Road to Paris. Beyond the Plain of Caen, the road leads straight to Paris, 120 miles east. That fabulous prize was more than the hub of the whole intricate French rail network; it was the symbol of German victory and of French defeat. The Nazis would defend Paris as fiercely as Berlin. To halt an Allied drive on Paris they would throw in their entire strategic reserve-if they were sure that was where Monty was headed...