Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a force estimated at 25,000 regulars, parachutists and commandos in the field, covered by carrier-borne planes and supplied by a fleet of 23 fighting and transport ships, the newest BEF drove 20 miles across the narrow northern tip of the great Indian Ocean island, fought its way into Diego Suarez streets and threatened momentarily, after a two-day campaign, to sieze the naval base from the rear...
South Africa's fighting Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts smelled Axis trouble in Madagascar last week which only increased the stench of his Axis trouble at home. From the lazy island of Madagascar the Axis might not only control the western Indian Ocean, but also attack the minerally rich Union of South Africa, only 800 miles away. Last week Prime Minister Smuts heard that Pierre Laval's rise to power in Vichy had been followed by a reign of terror in Madagascar, in which hundreds of Free French sympathizers were arrested. Prime Minister Smuts thereupon broke relations with...
...chief pilot works the elevators, the copilot the rudder. The number of blimps now in service is secret. It is not yet large, but within a few months it is expected to be. If it is, the U.S. will have what amounts to a two-ocean Navy sooner than it expected...
...beleaguered India. Hitler might now take full control of Dakar as a base for cutting the lifeline in the South Atlantic, and the Japs (if Hitler didn't mind) might get Madagascar as a base for cutting the lifeline again in the Indian Ocean...
Though India has a war potential of perhaps ten million able fighting men, the inability of either Britain or America to equip them rapidly over a distance of twelve thousand ocean miles, and the undeveloped state of India's own machine-industry, have this consequence: Japan cannot be held on the Indian front by machines but only by a hostile population. If the common people like those of Russia and China are ready to scorch their own earth and carry on guerrilla warfare, Japan's forces can be neutralized and her conquests made fruitless, even if Calcutta falls...