Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still busy, and wondrously successful, in the first steps toward joining the German and pinching off the great United Nations salient between Calcutta and Gibraltar. To pinch off that salient he needed control of the Indian Ocean, and he had a good start-Singapore, the Indies, Rangoon. But the other key to the salient was Madagascar, and the busy Japanese couldn't get to it in time...
...feeds the United Nations salient separating Jap from German. In ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope go planes and tanks and men to fight, from Egypt to Calcutta. They pass within range of Madagascar's bases. North of the island, aircraft can be flown across the Indian Ocean to Australia or Ceylon. And in Madagascar's fields and harbors, planes and ships can be refueled and repaired...
Elsewhere in the battle for control of the western Pacific Ocean and Asia the situation showed little change...
...promise. The sun drying out the mud ever farther north unrolled a great firm highway for the Nazi war machine. Maxim Litvinoff could guess at the pattern of the Nazi drive: this time, probably, Hitler would smash south, toward the oil of the Caucasus, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean. At the same moment the Japanese, with perhaps 1,000,000 men in Manchukuo, their railroads fanned out to the Siberian border, might smash at Russia's Asian end. This was Russia's crucial hour...
...Japs unquestionably wanted Madagascar, for Diégo-Suarez, the French naval base at the northern end of the island, is the key to the western half of the Indian Ocean. Diego-Suarez snuggles in a broad, lighthouse-studded bay, and it affords the navy of the nation which controls it a fully equipped submarine station, a 26,000-ton capacity drydock (nearest equivalent: Southampton, England), radio stations, a largely equable climate, a military hospital, a good water supply, a big power plant and meteorological station...