Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This northeast drive took the enemy off guard, but there was ample doubt that he could have done much about it, even with advance notice. He had committed the bulk of his dwindling forces to keeping the war from the Rhineland...
...blackout it appeared that Patton had used Troyes, 90 miles southeast of Paris, as he had used Le Mans (TIME, Aug. 21). Pivoting on Troyes, his columns had fanned out. One thrust had stabbed toward Alsace and the German Rhineland border, 130 miles to the east. Another had cut northeast and headed for Metz, in mid-Lorraine, next-door neighbor to Luxembourg and the Reich's Saar Valley...
...Germans insisted for three days that another Patton wedge had penetrated to Reims, 30 miles northeast of Chateau-Thierry, where battles raged again in the wheat fields. Only 50 miles north of Reims was Sedan, at the Ardennes gateway through which the Germans had plunged into France...
...column began to move: it ground out, tightly packed, onto the main road to the northeast. Then hope died forever...
...mile arc of the Japs' Pacific defenses the Allied blows fell thick & fast. They flared like lightning strokes from Sumatra, where the Allied Eastern Fleet beat up Padang and Emmahaven, to Halmahera, where the enemy feared General MacArthur's next amphibious stroke, to the Kurils, northeast of Japan...