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...hope to gain by resistance in northern Italy and Yugoslavia. For, with a free entry through Turkey, the Allies could establish a front in Bulgaria, attack the Rumanian hinge of the inner fortress, deprive the Germans of Ploesti's oil, threaten their armies in southern Russia from the rear...
...western and northern Europe, the Germans have no buffer lands to trade for time, or for a tenuous, temporary security. Occupied Denmark and Norway lie between Britain and the coast of north eastern Germany. But they are no places for rear-guard economy; they are places to be held as strongly and fiercely as the Germans would fight for their own coast. For, if they fall, the inner fortress will have been breached...
...Chaplino, a railway junction 60 miles from Zaporozhe. To take it, Red Cavalry and tanks broke through the German rear...
...signal from the British Rear Admiral in command, the Italians fell in behind the British squadron. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's naval aide and representative aboard the Warspite, Commander Harold Butcher, heard a British officer say: "Pretty sight, that...
...installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded Rear Admiral Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall, retired...