Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fredendall hung on to the southern end of his front largely through the bluff put up by a handful of U.S. paratroops and. French infantry. The Allies concentrated most of their strength north around Pichon in the Ousseltia Valley region, where they expected the Nazis to attack. Allied reconnaissance never spotted the Axis power gathering to the south near Faïd Pass. Three hours before Rommel's tanks rumbled out of Faïd Pass, General Dwight Eisenhower himself was calmly making a tour of the front only a few miles away. Fredendall was unable to switch...
Frenchmen hid out in cities. Many fled to the Alps, many to the wild Haute-Savoie region along the Swiss frontier. They dug up buried guns and ammunition and joined former officers of the French Army. From "somewhere in France," a "Headquarters of Francs-Tireurs and Partisans" reported that 282 German officers and men had been killed, 14 trains wrecked, 49 locomotives destroyed, four bridges blown up, ten French quislings executed, between...
...dogtrotting. Yet their pay (which averages $1 an hour) is no match for Seattle's shipyards. Moreover, Pacific Huts' absentee rate is a minuscule 1.5%, compared to about 8% at Boeing Aircraft's vast plant half a mile down the road, and about 4% for the region...
...Russians have not remained silent and inscrutable. They have pledged to assist in creating a strong Poland, but the leaders of Hitler's most effective foe do not interpret this as conflicting with their intention of recovering the eastern region of Poland...
...their recent campaign in Egypt, found the boiling days and freezing nights sufficient cause for conducting all their action at night in air-conditioned tanks, he stated. Also important is the ever-changing climate which makes any predictions hazardous. Dr. Conrad accompanied his lecture with slides of the Mediterranean region...