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...successive days bombers from Guadalcanal flew 150 miles northward to the New Georgia Islands and bombed the Japs' advanced air base at Munda. Usually, in the first days, Zeros soared up from the battered runways. On the 13th no Zero appeared. In the skies around them and among the smoking hangars of Munda, the flyers from Guadalcanal saw no sign of Japanese life...
Civil War. The day General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth Army began pounding Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in El Alamein, the Partisans of Bosanska Krajina moved northward down the jagged valleys of the Dinarian Alps to the outskirts of the Zagreb basin in Croatia. From the Valebit Mountains in Dalmatia a second force, called the Partisans of Lika, moved to meet them. From the northeast came a third army of Croat irregulars...
...week's end one column was ploughing into Gabes. Axis reserves, probably from Tripolitania, had either infiltrated through the Allied southern prong or dashed ahead of it and were streaking northward to the aid of Tunis. Fighting all along the contracting front grew heavier. Inexorably, to the north, the scythe swung against Nehring's iron ring...
...South Pacific. This week that edge had been whittled down, particularly in the vital cruiser category. As if to answer critics of the Navy , the forces under Vice Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey met the Japs and slugged it out. Three bloody days later the Japs were retreating northward from Guadalcanal waters and the Navy had won one of the most satisfactory victories...
Last week the Diggers prodded the enemy backwards from Oivi to Gorari to Ilinow to Wairopi, only 40 miles from Buna. They also outflanked the Japs, prying them out with belly-ripping steel, then cutting off retreat. Probing northward, American patrols joined the Aussies at Wairopi, drew their first Jap blood...