Word: overlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best chance to really get at the heart of Japan through offensive operations is from China. If we had an ample supply of airplane fuel inside China, we could really put on an offensive. . . . Now, why not lay a pipeline from some East Indian port overland to Chungking or some suitable base, and pipe the fuel in ? ... A five-or six-inch pipe could carry a lot of fuel. The line would not have to be buried, just follow the contour of the ground, up valleys, along ridges, etc. The pipe should be available from the iron foundries of India...
...from Henderson Field 25 miles away. Last week a strong body of U.S. troops suddenly showed itself in "a strong position" near the little Melanesian Mission station of Marovovo on the opposite shore. How they got there was not explained. If by land, they would have had to march overland more than 40 miles, through the harshest kind of mountains and jungle. It was possible they had come by sea, in the transports the Japs attacked off Rennell Island. However they got there, their arrival put the Japs...
...plenty of tankers. This is a fuel war, yet the Japs have enough tankers to use them for other military cargoes. The Japs have also converted whalers to be seaplane and landing-craft tenders, and they are now busily building a fleet of wooden junks, for coastal bay-hopping. Overland routes on the continent are beginning to relieve coastal shipping of part of its load. So far, Japan's shipping shortage is less acute than that of the Allies...
...Burden. Plainly the United Nations are barely holding their own on the sea front-if they are not indeed losing way. According to all signs, the strength of Germany's undersea fleet is increasing. Despite Germany's need of overland transport facilities, submarine building still holds No. 1 priority. Allied bombers, soaring over the great submarine base at Lorient, have been none too effective...
...encirclements near Stalingrad were mutual: a great German army was hemmed between the Don and the Volga, but the Russian forces in their wedges were also between German armies. Both sides depended on corridors for overland supply...