Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truth, the greatest battle in the history of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was fought below the equator, in the Coral Sea off Australia's northeast coast. For five days, smudged with belching smoke screens and roaring with bomb bursts, a U.S. naval force and Army bombers from land bases took turns tearing into a heavy Jap task force, invasion-bound...
...tough. His fleet was badly shot up, largely by one of the greatest concentrations of air power ever sent against a naval force. The straw that broke his back was the unhappy accident of piling into the main U.S. naval force no more than 450 miles off the northeast Australian coast...
Four German raiders northeast of England, by an R.A.F. squadron led by Lord Beaverbrook's son, Wing-Commander Max Aitken...
...first time ever, the Navy is building a training station in the rough-&-tumble Rocky Mountains. The site: Bayview, Idaho, a quiet several-horse town at the southwest end of Lake Pend d'Oreille, some 45 miles northeast of Spokane. Last week, as the citizens of Bayview (pop. 104) stood by goggle-eyed, the first of 10,000 carpenters, masons and plumbers were busily at work on a $20,000,000 base...
...outbreak of tribal warfare, after civil authorities withdrew from northeast New Guinea, threatened both Japs and the remaining white inhabitants...