Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little damage. U.S. and Australian bombers knocked out 13 Jap troop and supply ships attempting a seaborne thrust at Port Moresby and its hill-ringed harbor. The R.A.A.F. and long-range U.S. bombers hammered the airdrome at Gasmata, Jap-occupied town on New Britain's southern coast, swept northeast to Rabaul to catch grounded Jap bombers with at least one direct hit. Jap bombers left their bloody calling cards at tiny isles in Torres Strait, between New Guinea and northern Australia. The Japs were blasting out their invasion road...
Following Portuguese, Dutch and British pioneers, the French first got a foothold on the island at the end of the 17th Century. In the 19th Century they started developing one of the world's best natural harbors, Diégo-Suarez on Madagascar's northeast coast. Diégo-Suarez is defended by ancient 75 and 90 mm. guns; on the whole island there are only 5,000 troops, French and Senegalese, with a sprinkling of natives. Of the 40,000 whites, most of the small fry are anti-Vichy; most of the Government, Army and other important...
Melbourne reported that United Nations planes had knocked out at least 13 Japanese transports and one or two warships of the Nipponese invasion fleet which was believed to be heading for Port Moresby, New Guinea, off the Northeast Australian Coast...
This was a lightning raid on the German radio-detector station at Bruneval, twelve miles northeast of Le Havre on the French coast. It is well known that the British have an effective short-wave device for locating planes at night or in clouds. Less well known is the fact that the Germans have a locator equally effective. The German device worked perfectly on the U.S. Catalina patrol bomber which spotted the Bismarck last May: the bomber had been followed through the clouds by radio detection from the German battleship, and the instant the plane appeared it got such...
...threat to Java became more acute as the Japanese, against stubborn resistance, poured more men and planes into southern Sumatra and crushed the last Dutch resistance at Macassar, on Colobes Island just northeast of Java. The Nipponese also resumed bombing assaults on Soerabaja, Allied naval base on Java, and on Bali and Timor, east of Java...