Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million are still to come, including refugees from the once-German Baltic port of Stettin. The major part of Stettin lies west of the Oder River, provisional Polish-German frontier. But, with Russian consent, the Poles moved over the Oder, took over all of Stettin. Now 200,000 Germans there have been ordered to clear out. There was one Polish concession: they would not eject the Germans until after the harvest...
After Buna, Eichelberger trained troops in Australia until he got back into action again at Hollandia, took the vital New Guinea port with deftness and speed. The Japs were hit where they weren't at Hollandia, but there were enough stray units around to infiltrate Eichelberger's command post by night...
Corporal Slick's Ride. The battle of Stalingrad was under way when the first men of the P.G.C. landed. Droves of supply-packed Liberty ships soon followed. But from the port of Bandar Shahpur there was no transport to Russia except a single-track railroad, running across desert as bare as the Sahara and through 47 miles of tunnels in mountains almost as high as the Rockies...
From the Iowa, anchored in Sagami Bay, TIME Correspondent John Walker radioed: "Off our port beam we saw the vast bulk of the holy mountain, Fuji, almost concealed in a wreath of clouds which could have been a mourning robe of traditional Japanese white - the color of death." The advance guard of airborne invaders landed at Atsugi; their transports disgorged aviation engineers, jeeps, gasoline, rations, radios, to prepare for the grand entry of the 11th Airborne Division and of MacArthur himself. Between Atsugi and the fleet was the Emperor's seaside palace at Hayama, destined to be MacArthur...
Myth Dispelled. Propaganda could no longer conceal the fact that the Commu nist regime had relied for much of its strength on the prospect of Russian sup port. Despite its claims, Yenan controlled not more than a fifth of China and 70,000,000 Chinese. Even that control, in the sense of mass support, had yet to be impartially assessed. Its regular army did not exceed 450,000 men, and they had only 250,000 rifles...