Word: outpost
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...rigid rule of secrecy upon its officers in all the bases outside the U.S., Trinidad included. But from the public, paved highways through the whole Army area, natives riding their stunted donkeys and any visiting motorist could see the outline of what is soon to be a tremendous outpost of the U.S. Army Air Corps...
...expert famous for a day at Neuve Chapelle in 1914 when he stood bolt upright on a parapet for 20 minutes, lighting the fuses of improvised jam-tin bombs with a cigaret and lobbing the bombs at the Germans. Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops in central Norway last year...
...prospectors' packs and hiked ten days across the tundra to Cape Prince of Wales, westernmost tip of North America. For $20 an Eskimo boatman in a 30-ft. skin boat with an outboard motor took them across the 20-mile strip of water to Little Diomede Island, last outpost of the U. S. in Bering Strait. For $5 another boatman set them down on Russia's Big Diomede Island, two miles away...
...secret rendezvous in the 10,000-foot volcanic mountains of southern Libya the British units had joined Free French forces pushing up from Chad, headed north to the outpost and airport of Murzuch. They dressed in the flowing coverings of the desert, and scattered Italian patrols they passed on the way took them for relief troops, unsuspectingly waved them the Fascist salute. When they reached the fort the Italian garrison was even less wary. Coming smartly to attention at the command of a British officer, they were all set to parade in review when ordered to surrender...
...behind a string of Free French tanks and trucks as it crept into southernmost Libya. The caravan pushed 200 miles across the desert to el-Gatrún, which the Free Frenchmen took without so much as seeing an Italian. They went 100 miles further to the more important outpost of Múrzuch, where there was both garrison and airport. When the Free French were sighted, all the Italians went into the post and shut the gates tight. The Free French men surrounded the post in mock siege, spent a day leisurely destroying hangars and planes. Afterwards they razed...