Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sister city Kobe, 20 miles northwest, was still smouldering from an earlier attack. Flyers had driven through snow, fog, thunderheads, antiaircraft fire and fairly strong fighter opposition-but they had left Kobe "one hell of a hot place...
...next flight was to the North Magnetic Pole, believed to be somewhere in the Boothia Peninsula of far northern Canada. They located it 200 to 300 miles north-northwest of where it is now shown on maps...
...Russians supposedly were to have eastern Germany, the British the northwest, the Americans the southwest, and the French an area somewhere between the British and the Americans...
...formation of combat-bound Flying Fortresses, over northwest Europe at 13,500 feet, there was only a moment of confusion. But it was enough. There was a collision, and one of the B-17s, with its tail cut off, spilled crazily forward. The heavy forepart plunged with its pilots, gunners and navigator. Only one bailed out. As the formation bored on, its air crews saw the tail of the mangled ship sailing erratically, like a piece of paper dropped from a skyscraper window...
This week Marshal Stalin announced that Red Army units had reached the Elbe at Mühlberg - 30 miles northwest of Dresden and almost due east of Leipzig. Technically this was not a junction, since the U.S. positions on the Elbe were farther north. But at least the two Allies had reached the banks of the same river...