Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days before the landings, some of the German suspense was lifted. Allied air fleets began an unmistakable preparation of the southern coast for invasion. They bombed Toulouse, railroad nerve center for the southwest, beat up the naval base at Toulon, strafed the once gilded Riviera. Fighter-bombers meticulously blasted out German radio direction-finding stations. The stage...
...fall into German hands? Probing the Bag. A Red Army spokesman said that Warsaw was one of those places "which have to be captured from all sides." Last week Marshal Rokossovsky's army group gained ground north of the city, in attacks toward the Warsaw-Bialystok railroad. Some 100 miles to the south, in sweltering hot weather, Marshal Konev fought off repeated German tank and infantry attacks, developed a huge salient across the Vistula, from which a northward drive toward Warsaw might roll up the Germans on the west bank...
...Brest (pop. 74,000) and Saint-Nazaire (42,000) were deep-water ports the Americans sorely needed. They had been there before-in 1917 and 1918. From Saint-Nazaire's riverside wharves a vast flow of heavy material had been run to the front over a U.S.-built railroad 27 years ago. At Brest many a U.S. division had poured ashore. At least two of those divisions-the 4th and the 79th-were close to Brest again this week...
...British flyers, under a unified command, had not only cut off the battle field of northwestern France from the rest of Europe. They had also made it a place where the Germans' rolling stock could move only by night, where by day tanks, trucks and railroad trains were so efficiently spotted and bombed that no rapid movement could be attempted, no threatened spot reinforced...
...hunts by lions recur periodically around Mozambique. The last time was just before World War I. Then, construction of a railroad absorbed so much interest that sportsmen stopped hunting lions, the lions began to raid and hunt the natives...