Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweeping westward on a wide front, British tanks and infantry yesterday pushed to within 70 miles of Benghazi, main Axis north African supply port east of Tripoli, a communiquo announced. The British were believed advancing on Peughazi from the east and northeast, one column following the coastal road around the Libyan hump and the other striking directly across the desert...
Oran and Mers-el-Kebir, the nearby naval base where the British attacked parts of the French Fleet in 1940, were also flanked. The main landings were at Arzew, on a promontory 25 miles northeast of Oran. On the narrow, easily accessible shore between the hills and the sea, other forces seized Bou Sfer and Cap Signale, west of the city. Then they drove for: 1) Oran's four airdromes, 2) the parallel railway and highway coursing down the coastal plain. By land, on the flanks and in the rear of the historic city, the encirclement was swift...
...assault upon Morocco. Landings were made north of the city at coastal Mehdia, to the south on the narrow shore of Fedhala and Bouznika; then immediate marches upon Rabat's own airdrome, which was quickly evacuated by the Vichy -french, and on another at Salé, eight miles northeast of the capital...
...second night U.S. troops from the northeast were within four miles of Casablanca-although they had probably met the stiffest resistance they had yet found on land. But the most spectacular attacks were upon the port's great, artificial anchorage and upon the Vichy warships there: the battleship Jean Bart, uncompleted and now a stationary fortress with its 15-in. guns; several cruisers, destroyers, gunboats. Bombers, repeatedly attacking the Jean Bart, set her aflame...
...photographs of bomb-scarred Linhsi after the first U.S. foray into North China. Said he: "It's going to be a cold winter in Japan." Riding huge four-motored Consolidated Liberators, Chennault's bombers had struck hard at Linhsi's Kailan coalfields. Those mines, 75 miles northeast of Tientsin, yield one-third of China's normal coal production, furnish much fuel for Japan's heavy industries and domestic heating...