Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacArthur's critical weakness has been ships. But he mustered at least enough to carry out a flanking operation on the north coast. Troops from Milne Bay, on New Guinea's eastern tip, sailed 50 miles northward and landed at Goodenough Island, "clearing remnants of hostile forces...
...real blow came when the Navy announced that another precious, unidentified U.S. aircraft carrier had followed the Lexington, Yorktown and Wasp to a deep grave in the Pacific. Whether she was the Enterprise, the Saratoga, the Ranger or the Hornet was not announced. When the Japs withdrew northward, either in outright retreat or to regroup for another action, Bull Halsey sent his ships to shell the enemy positions on Guadalcanal...
...Returning to Pearl Harbor from Guadalcanal, Admiral Nimitz was confident that the men on the spot "will hold what they have and eventually start rolling northward...
Toward the Front. He flew northward 275 miles to Sian. In the drizzling rain at the airport he was met by the most important person in North China, Major General Hu Tsung-nan. It is the crucial job of stocky, 42-year-old General Hu, with China's finest troops, to prevent the Japanese from crossing the Yellow River bend near Sian. The front has been stationary there for three years. If the Japanese ever got bridgeheads, they might then find it easy to conquer Chungking from the north...
...MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA--Australian troops, pushing northward through New Guinea without Japanese opposition, Shave penetrated the 6,170-foot high Owen Stanley mountain gap to the point where it drops downhill toward the Japanese base at Kokoda, front dispatches said tonight...