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George Gearhart, tavern worker, and Robert Pearson, railroad-yard checker, watched the big plane level off at one of the many shadowy knobs dotting Ensign Flat, a plateau east of the city. The plane flew past Ensign Peak. Any moment now Pilot Don Brown should bank, continue his half circle, sail in from the south. He didn...
...Roads. Because the Japanese have closed China's coast line, China must breathe through roads and railways leading to unconquered seaports. The Japanese, closing on Rangoon, were closing the entry to China's arterial Burma Road. But China had an alternative. In the wild, peaked plateau where China and India meet, just above invaded Burma, some 20,000 Chinese stonecutters, some 100,000 other laborers blasted, hewed and dug away at a substitute route into India across 10,000-foot peaks, across three great rivers, across many another vast obstacle between Sichang in China and a border railhead...
...morning of May 10, 1940, the scrubbed, immaculate city of Bandung, on a Java plateau, seemed unwarily peaceful. Halfway around the world, before dawn in Europe, the Army of the motherland was reeling from the first sudden assault of the German. But that morning in the white-stoned General Headquarters build ing of The Netherlands East Indies in Bandung -there was a cooling breeze, and negligent ease...
Their road led across the highest tableland in the world, the Karakoram plateau of northern Tibet. The Kazaks set their faces toward the blue, snowcapped 20,000-foot wall of the Himalayas, worked their painful way through steep narrow gorges, over wind-filled passes like knife cuts in the rock...
With British reports putting some British units far south of Bengasi, Rommel seemed to be facing disaster. His only outlet for the forces caught on the Barca Plateau is Bengasi. Under bombing and shelling from the sea, the port may become a jagged-edged bottleneck. This week the British began increasing their aerial activity against Axis Libyan ports. They hoped they were entering the last round of the Ritchie-Rommel fight-to-a-finish...