Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow to the remnants of German morale. The Rhine, the sacred river that winds through German song & story, had not been crossed by hostile armies since Napoleon passed over it at Strasbourg in 1805. * As a military factor, the Remagen bridgehead offered the chance of a drive to the northeast, outflanking the Ruhr; or a push to the southeast, forcing a German withdrawal from the Saar and the rest of the Rhineland south of the Moselle...
...north shore was speeded from a slow crawl to a slow march. On the 19th day of the battle for Iwo, a 28-man patrol from Company A of the 21st Regiment (part of Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division) broke through to the northeast coast and slid down the cliffs to the beach. To General Schmidt, they sent back a canteen of sea water, marked "for approval-not for consumption." To the aid stations they carried back their wounded, caught in Jap mortar fire on the beach. Next day, the 4th made a second breakthrough, cutting...
World of Dynamite. That world is more important because of where it is than because of what it has. A look at the Big Three maps will show that its strategic position is as great now as it ever has been -Teheran lies to the northeast, Yalta to the northwest, Great Bitter Lake in the southwest...
...Saturday, five sedans carrying a dozen Mounties and 22 canopied Army trucks, carrying no specially sworn Army "constables," roared into Drummondville, a French Canadian tex tile center (pop. 16,000) some 70 miles northeast of Montreal. Quickly the raiders fanned out, swept into crowded hotels and taverns. Word of what was happening spread through the city. Crowds began to gather...
...Could Give It. From the heights of Suribachi in the southwest, and a series of hills in the northeast, the Japanese poured enfilading fire into the attackers. Forward observers with the marines radioed back to the ships for fire support. Turner conceded that the preliminary bombardment had cleaned out "by no means all" of the Jap artillery positions. Said Howlin' Mad Smith: Our men are spread all over hell's acre out there, and they're going after those hidden Jap guns, which are mighty hard to locate. Most of those guns are in caves. They come...