Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backed by the greatest concentration of naval power he had ever had, had given the U.S. new airfields 500 miles closer to the enemy's inner positions. From the three big airdromes at Hollandia (on which U.S. engineers worked this week), U.S. long-range bombers can now reach the southern tip of the Philippines (although with minimum loads), can also bite heavily into the Jap chain from the onetime Dutch naval base at Amboina, up through the Pacific arc to Guam...
...struck close to Hans Hube. His son had been killed on the Eastern front; his daughter had died in an air raid on Berlin. He himself, the Reich's famed one-armed tank general, had barely managed to slip out of the Russians' reach on the hostile Ukrainian steppe...
...C.B.I.'s 800,000-square-mile area, only New Delhi and Chungking have transmitters powerful enough to reach the U.S., and even these cannot be counted...
Though far from impregnable by nature, the Carpathians here offer much greater defensive possibilities than the wide plains which the Russians have crossed to reach them. How well dug in the Germans are is a matter of conjecture, but it is probable that neither pass is as well guarded this week as it will be three or five weeks hence...
...eastern wall of the Carpathians, the Ploesti oilfields, one-third of Hitler's oil supply, can be taken, Bucharest and the German frontage on the Black Sea could be liquidated. If the drive continued successfully the Russians could fight their way west, where the Carpathians curve back, to reach the easiest of the Carpathian passes, facing north from the valley of the muddy Danube...