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Last week Poznan and Arnswalde fell. Poznan, Poland's fourth city, was a notable victory, even though it was 100 miles behind the front facing Berlin. At Poznan the Red Army reported having killed 25,000 Nazis and captured 23,000. Arnswalde was significant as a guardian outpost of Stettin, 40 miles to the northwest...
...special Cabinet session the General and his Ministers decided to build "a large land, air and naval base" on Africa's Atlantic bulge, at Dakar, which Franklin Roosevelt more than once implied was a U.S. strategic outpost. A few days later the General dropped in at the Institut Géographique, where French Indo-Chinese were celebrating their New Year...
Leyte was declared secure. Now the job in the Philippines was to build up Allied forces, especially in the advanced outpost of Mindoro, for the big push on Luzon. The Japs knew it, and reacted in familiar fashion: they sent down a task force of surface ships to blast the soft-shelled beachhead with heavy guns...
Three Arms as One. Next day the weight of U.S. air power in the Marianas was thrown into the assault-not on Japan itself, but upon a tiny outpost which was protecting the homeland against heavier B-29 batterings. To Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima) in the Volcano group, midway between Saipan and Tokyo, went a "sizable force" of Superforts-70 to 100 of them, each carrying up to ten tons of bombs...
Super-careful South African censors finally released a story of the days when the Italians were rampant and the Allies unprepared. Back in 1940 a South African crew took an ancient Valencia biplane loaded with supplies, ferried them to a Kenya outpost south of Mussolini's then-powerful Ethiopian empire. At dinner an engineer told them about a nearby Italian fort "simply waiting to be bombed...