Word: overland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Persian Gulf. At the military worst, it would be to Basra that the Tenth Army would retire, for with Basra would go the Persian Gulf, and its access to South Africa, the South Atlantic, the U.S. and Britain. The battle for the bridge would first be a battle for overland rail and highway routes from Basra through Bagdad to Persia, the Caspian and Russia; then, at the blackest last, for the city itself. At such a juncture, the loss of Basra and the Gulf would be even worse than the loss of Suez...
...freight cars. Of these 25,000 will be coal cars to meet the greater demand for overland transportation of coal and coke; 35,000 will be low-sided gondolas, 10,000 will be flat cars, both of which types are ideal for carrying tanks, artillery, other heavy pieces peculiar to war production. These cars, purchased at the railroads' own expense, are an outright contribution to the war effort; the carriers already have a surplus of such equipment for their expected peacetime needs. New boxcars, which the railroads can always use, are limited to about...
With Stalingrad gone, said Karpovich, Baku oil could be sent across the Caspian to ports in the Ural region and shipped from there overland by rail. Such a method, of course, would tax Russian rail facilities to the utmost...
...Balchen and Parunak rested from this exploit, an Army patrol plane, with two men aboard, flopped down in a glacier canyon. One man was badly injured; there was no time for a two weeks' overland rescue. Four miles away was a lake. Its milky waters concealed rocks that could spell doom for a landing plane, but Pilot Parunak set his flying boat down, somehow, anyway. While Balchen and his rescue party trudged to the stranded patrol plane, Pilot Parunak sat up all night kicking icebergs away from his PBY. After this rescue, Parunak and Balchen gave themselves a name...
...Russian lines. Planes also were dropping tanketka (baby tanks) in numbers that caused plenty of trouble unless Soviet units isolated and destroyed them. A favorite parachute tactic was to land 100 or so men near a town or rail line, attempt to hold on until break-through units arrived overland. Often they dropped into towns, trying to create panic and the belief that the town had been surrounded...