Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock in the morning and a light snow was falling, ruddy in the red glow of the obstruction lights. Off to the east, three miles away, the radio operator on the roof of the municipal airport could see the lights of Salt Lake City. Beyond, and to the northeast, the Wasatch Mountains jutted. From the west came the rumble of two big engines, over the radio the businesslike voice of veteran United Air Lines Pilot Howard Fey, eastbound from San Francisco...
...Something had gone wrong with the radio range, he said: he was hearing the "A" signal where he should be getting an "N." Salt Lake City airmen suspected Trip 16's fate before she was found, at noon, smashed against Bountiful Peak at 6,500 feet, 15 miles northeast of the field. All hands were dead-the two pilots, the stewardess, seven passengers...
HANOI, Indo-China--French forces defending Langson, important railroad center 82 miles northeast of here, were forced to withdraw from the city late today when attacking Japanese troops of the South China army encircled their positions...
...port and naval facilities of northeast Germany formed another natural group of targets for the British, who had only to find Germany's broad river,mouths at night to bomb Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Waldshut. On the Weser lie Gottingen, Kassel, Rotenburg-all aircraft centres. On the Saale, tributary of the Elbe, were the big synthetic oil works of Leuna, the Zeiss instrument works at Jena...
...against such an attack is fleet control of the Atlantic. But if by superior naval force an invader got a foothold, he would be in bombing range of U. S. fields from Newfoundland on. Chief of the Army's strong points in New England is the new Northeast Air Base now under construction at Chicopee Falls, Mass, (just north of Springfield). Farther south, on Long Island, is the Army's Mitchel Field, seat of the Air Defense Command. Through the whole northeast are scores of fields, ranging from New York City's LaGuardia and Floyd Bennett...