Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...navies of the United Nations, convoying, fighting subs, mixing in swirling battles with the Jap in the Indian Ocean, watching a hundred naval rat holes from Trondheim to Surabaya, this concentration of the German surface fleet had a sinister look...
...that front. MacArthur in Australia, the vital Mid-East, Chiang Kai-shek in China, General Wavell in India, Britain herself, U.S. forces stationed from Hawaii to Iceland-all these called as well for supply. Last week a London naval analyst listed Britain's most important lines (the Indian Ocean, her route to Russia via Murmansk, her north Atlantic route from the U.S.), and said: "If it is not possible to safeguard all three without incurring disastrous losses both in warships and merchantmen, surely it is necessary to decide what it would be literally fatal to lose, and to concentrate...
...biggest part of the change had been brought about by the Jap. He had engaged the mighty U.S. Fleet, but in the Pacific; and from his coldly brilliant attack on Pearl Harbor to his thrust into the Indian Ocean he had stretched the U.S. Fleet thin, halfway around the world. More than that, he had snatched the British Far Eastern bases, and was now sucking British units toward India to head off the final rupture of the Empire. Meanwhile the Italians, who still had nuisance value, were-with the help of German airmen-holding other great British units...
...found the right answer to the big question: Whose ocean is the Atlantic? Nazi submarines still poked in past the screening patrol of warships and airplanes, still ripped great mortal holes in precious U.S. merchant hulls...
...initials were K2, PC and PT. With enough of these the U.S. could absolutely dominate all of the nearby Atlantic, and the main Atlantic Fleet could concentrate on the farther reaches. Kas are blimps, nonrigid airships, capable of patrolling an area of 2,000 square miles of ocean every twelve hours. When the U.S. gets enough blimps nosing out of bases up & down the Atlantic Coast, no submarine will dare venture in daylight within blimp-range along the entire coast. The U.S. Navy, never a small operator, planned a total of 48 blimps as a starter-six to a squadron...