Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bowling northeast blizzard, perhaps the worst in 20 years, swept into New England last night, paralyzing rail, highway and ocean traffic and causing at least two deaths...
...pilot imprisoned in Germany wrote home about how, diving to bomb a submarine, he plunged into the ocean. Excerpt...
...fast modern bombers which did not bear the blue swastika of the Finnish Air Force bombed Liinahamari, Finnish port for Petsamo and now Russia's chief Arctic supply base. (There were unconfirmed and probably untrue reports that these planes had come from a British carrier in the Arctic Ocean.) One of the many Finnish ski patrols trying to cut the Leningrad-Murmansk railway made its way back to Finland after a nine-day trip and reported it had dynamited the railroad...
...extraordinary how much that feeble light had meant to us. While it was there we had forgotten the intense discomfort. But as soon as it disappeared the world suddenly became a darker and a colder place, and I, for one, felt for the first time the vastness of the ocean. How could any ship hope to find us? It seemed impossible...
...Finns gave the world a good example of sisu by carrying the war into Russian territory on one front while on another they withstood merciless attacks by a reinforced Russian Army. In the wilderness that forms most of the Russo-Finnish frontier between Lake Laatokka and the Arctic Ocean, the Finns definitely gained the upper hand...