Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emilian plain, Canadians of the Eighth Army fought from grapevine to grapevine toward Ravenna (pop. 78,000), Byron's favorite Italian town, once an early Christian metropolis and a naval base in the days of Augustus Caesar. Finally the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards drove in from the northwest while the 27th Lancers pushed in from the south. The Germans backed out so quickly there was no time for house-to-house fighting. Residents turned out for the kind of flag-waving reception the toiling troops in Italy had almost forgotten...
Occasionally the Luftwaffe chose to fight. When 500 U.S. fighters swept down on northwest Germany to strafe transport, 400 interceptors rose to challenge. They lost 98 in the air and four more trying to take off, against a U.S. loss of only...
...west of Bhamo, British forces chased the enemy back toward Mandalay in a retreat whose scale suggested that the Japs may have decided to pull out of northwest Burma entirely. But the enemy troops facing General Sultan's men were fighting stubborn delaying actions...
Dead-End Road. If Kweiyang were to go as nine other U.S. bases had gone, the Japs would be in a position to: 1) advance northward along the Burma Road toward Chungking itself; 2) turn southwest toward Kunming or northwest to Pichieh and cut the best alternate road over which U.S. supplies might move in quantity, once the Burma end of the Road was cleared (see below...
Over the Sea. Victory of the week-even greater in immediate results than the pulling of the Limon plug-came when U.S. fighter bombers, P-40s and 47s, jumped a reinforcement convoy of three Japanese transports and a destroyer off Masbate Island, in the Visayan Sea northwest of Leyte. The Yankee fighters barreled straight in, let the bombs go at close range, then strafed the crowded transport decks while screaming soldiers leaped overboard to get away from the spreading fires and the strafing...