Word: reykjavik
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...Luftwaffe was yet to fulfill Hitler's promise of punishment. It raided the British coast ineffectively. One German bomber flew over Reykjavik, Iceland, but dropped no bombs. Another devastated an open field near a fishing village...
...pure cussedness none of them had ever seen anything like the job they had to do. The Army was everywhere, from Fort Dix to Chungking, from Reykjavik to Port Darwin. Country boys in khaki, with the hayseed barely combed out of their hair, soldiered at Khorram Shar within hiking distance of the muddy confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Officers who had never been off the pavements set up camps on atolls in the Pacific or led men through the drifting fogs of the Aleutians to new homes that must be built. In the miasmas of Surinam...
...ships have docked at Suez and Murmansk, at Sidney and at Reykjavik. Convoys have steamed through, without a loss, to Ireland and Australia...
...true story of the U.S.S. Kearny, which was torpedoed but not sunk three weeks ago, was told from a hospital cot after she arrived at Reykjavik, Iceland, by Ensign Henry Lyman, of Ponkapog, Mass...
...Bold Venture, 3,222 gross tons, owned by U.S. Maritime Commission, flying Panamanian flag, lat. 57° N, long. 24° W, bearing north for Reykjavik with general cargo bound for Britain. . . . 11:40 p.m. . . . All well...