Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis' Boats. On the Atlantic coast, French armored and infantry detachments cleared the Gironde estuary, opened the great port of Bordeaux to Allied ships for the first time in five years. The French First Army, on the right bank of the Rhine, captured Stuttgart and suddenly leaped south to the heavily guarded Swiss border, trapping some thousands of Germans in the Black Forest. The French also reached Lake Constance, not long after four boatloads of guilt-stricken Nazis had fled to the eastern end of the lake, where they could duck into the Alpine bastion. A few frantic latecomers...
This week the Allies gave the Germans a sample of what will happen eventually to all pockets. French armor, backed by U.S. artillery and aircraft, began the flattening of German-held positions on both sides of the Gironde estuary, which had blocked the use of Bordeaux as a port. In three days the Allies captured Royan, main strongpoint on the north side of the Gironde. The hopeless Germans continued to battle bitterly...
...bitter fighting it had managed to gain 1,000 yards. Thirty-third Division troops fought artillery duels with Japs snugly hidden in caves on mountain slopes. Bit by bit both divisions worked closer to their objectives. On Mindanao the slow cleanup of Zamboanga peninsula continued. Davao, the excellent port and key area of the second largest island, was heavily bombed by the Thirteenth Air Force...
...clear where all the Allied armies were heading. Field Marshal Montgomery had thrown a left hook aimed for the North Sea and the submarine bases at Emden, Wilhelmshaven. He had columns within shelling range of Bremen. He punched his right hard & fast toward Hamburg, the biggest German port. If the Germans in the north counted upon a last stand in Denmark, or possible flight through it to Norway, Monty might soon scramble their ideas...
...railroads rigged their rates on freight for export so that the vast flow of cargoes from the West passed through North Atlantic ports. Item: from Alton, Ill. to Baltimore or New York the first-class freight rate is $1.68 per 100 pounds. But to the deep-water port of Savannah the rate is $2.39, though the mileage from Alton to the three ports is about the same...