Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extent of that retreat became apparent this week: the Germans had given up their best positions for the defense of Naples. Fifth Army troops turned westward from Salerno, occupied the lower coast and the heights of the Sorrento peninsula overlooking the port and its bay. Twelve miles off, midway between the troops and Naples, Vesuvius loomed. Other troops already held Capri, the storied island just off the peninsula, the islands of Ischia and Procida in the Bay of Naples, Ponza and Ventotene northwest...
...Plan for Defeat. Hitler told the Germans that they must be willing to swap some of their conquered territory for military security. This statement was not merely an alibi for retreat. It was a clue to Germany's strategy of defeat...
From airdromes and ports already seized in southern Italy, bombers and warships can harry the Germans in Greece. Retreat northward, or a stand which in the end can gain them little, are the alternatives. If Albania falls to the Allies, Greece will become a trap for any Germans who remain...
...slow retreat, the Japs withdrew their air reinforcements from the airfields at Wewak to the safer refuge of Hollandia, 600 miles from the New Guinea front. At week's end, under air cover and a heavy naval bombardment, seaborne Australian troops made an end run around both Salamaua and Lae, staged a large-scale amphibious landing above Lae to cut off both Jap bases from their overland supply...
...long before it became fashionable for intellectuals to take movies seriously, wrote learned papers about films for the Princeton art and archaeology department Bulletin, and the defunct, advance-guard expatriate quarterly transition. For a rest after completing his monumental job on Dürer, Panofsky retired to his Kennebunkport retreat, where he spends much time with his friend and neighbor, Art Collector Booth Tarkington...