Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pont Moresby for its 73rd bombing-reported the American troops there positively reeked of good health on their diet of canned food and quinine, but there was not even a native woman within miles of the place. Early in May he stationed himself at a secret air base in northeast Australia from which Allied bombers were pounding the Japs to the north. He had his reward for foresight when he was able to file his battle dispatches from the very shores of the Coral...
...last Russian resistance west of the river. Now they had bridgeheads across the Don where it crooks within 47 miles of Stalingrad. Two new footholds were won, the sprouting prongs of a pincer designed to squeeze off the lower Volga's key industrial city. One prong thrust northeast from Kotelnikov in great force, the other southeast from Kletskaya, in relentless progress that the Red Army was unable to halt...
Bagdad to Teheran. Back again in "the office" as the bomber flew northeast over the Persian mountains from Bagdad to Teheran, Churchill saw jagged peaks reaching up hungrily in the clear air. "Say, aren't we flying rather close?" he asked. Vanderkloot answered: "About a thousand feet." "Those peaks," said Churchill, "would look better from higher up." The bomber picked up another thousand feet...
...Marines were still killing Japs in the Solomons (see col. 1) when a smaller Marine detachment raided tiny Makin Island, 1,250 miles northeast of Tulagi. Under tall, battle-hardened Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson and his second-in-command, Major James Roosevelt, they killed at least 80 Japs, destroyed two seaplanes and a radio station, looked on while Jap bombers from a nearby island pounded what was left of their own men and installations. Then the Marines retired...
...task force approached the Solomons, Douglas MacArthur's airmen began smashing at Jap air bases. The purpose was obvious: to hamstring the Jap in the employment of the best weapon he had against sea attack. Army bombers raided the old familiar targets at Lae and Salamaua on the northeast coast of New Guinea by day and by night. On Friday, Aug. 7 (Thursday in the U.S.), when Ghormley's force had its first contact with the Japs, the Army was raiding Rabaul in New Britain, probably the Jap's strongest position east of Amboina...