Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aachen was doomed, but the destruction of Charlemagne's historic residence was now no more than an episode in the tense tactical drama on the western front. The battle that raged in mounting fury northeast of the German border city was far more significant. This week there were ample signs that here the Allies hoped they might achieve their breakthrough to the Rhine...
This week the pent-up bolt of Allied power struck. A thunderous preparation by 1,000 bombing planes shook the earth for miles around a new sector northeast of Aachen. Behind the bombardment - and a rolling barrage by 10-inch guns - the battle-seasoned U.S. First hurdled a small river, moved forward toward Cologne. The Germans backed stubbornly, foot by foot, before them...
...justices were more active. Hugo La Fayette Black, 58, met his sons (Lieut. Sterling and Corporal Hugo L. Jr.) at Miami Beach, sharpened up his tennis in matches with Donald Budge's brother Lloyd. William Orville Douglas, 45, went, as usual, to his hideaway Lostine River ranch in northeast Washington, climbed mountains and hooked trout. Stanley Reed, 59, whacked repainted golf balls for exercise; Wiley Rutledge, 50, camped out in the White River country of western Colorado. Bob Jackson, 52, rode horseback at his McLean, Va. estate; Frank Murphy, 54, lolled on a Michigan beach; Felix Frankfurter, 61, visited...
...there was still fight left in the Nazis. They concentrated their strength to hold a hedgehog near Jelgava (Mitau) and thus kept open a small exit for their troops from the northeast. Even after the capture of Jelgava by tankers of Lieut. General Viktor Obukov, the Germans stood their ground, backed up against the Gulf of Riga. Until the first of this week, an escape corridor was still open, with Nazis streaming through it to fight another...
More to Come. Complete capture of Palau would give the Navy its best frontline anchorage west of Pearl Harbor-far superior to Guam and Saipan 850 miles to the northeast, and one of several big naval bases needed for operations against the Philippines, Formosa or China...