Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian troops garrisoning Bengasi fought well against hopelessly superior odds, but the flat seaport, which had already been pounded by three assaults since the North African campaign began, was not fortified for a siege. Though some of the Indians escaped to the northeast, the Axis claimed that at least one battalion was captured...
Four hundred miles northeast of Lhasa, Tibetan soldiers stopped the caravan. Finally it was allowed to go on. Many a Kazak was killed by bandits; many of their animals died in sudden storms...
...week's end he had made four landings in the Dutch archipelago. His troops got ashore at Tarakan (see map), an island off the oil-rich northeast coast of Borneo, the Indies' richest oil center. He pushed in under cruiser protection during the night, was met by the local defense force and by Indies Army bombers...
Showing slides of the coastal range of British Columbia which he and his party were the first to climb from the inside northeast side, Henry S. Hall '19 described several of the experiences he had on his eight different trips to this range...
...left flank of the Army, now facing northeast, rested on the sea. Within its lines lay Subic Bay and the naval base at Olongapo, where a relieving force could be landed if it should come. Behind it, separated by only two miles of water lay Corregidor, a tadpole-shaped fortress in the mouth of Manila Bay, with its sandy low-lying tail pointed toward the city...