Word: roadless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alaskan aviation was zooming. Thanks to the Army's frantic wartime construction, and to war surplus sales (at which an ex-service flyer could buy a DC-3 for $25,000), aviation had finally come of age. The airplane had long been a versatile beast of burden in roadless Alaska. But as late as 1939 northern flying had been a primitive business with no fields capable of accommodating a modern transport, no directional radio navigation aids, little radio communication...
...more than a year the Allies had hacked through the Burma jungles, around the swamps, over the roadless mountains. There were innumerable difficulties. The Japanese could employ small forces in the constricted battle areas to hold back larger forces. For most of the year the enemy had held almost all the all-season roads...
Last week the first finger of the Allied hand jabbed deepest into the softening Japanese defenses. At its tip were jungle-wise troops of the Chinese 22nd Division under General Lee Tao, who had marched and fought 210 miles through roadless terrain in two months; and U.S. troops seasoned with veterans of Merrill's Marauders, now gathered in an outfit ominously named Mars Task Force. Commanding it was Brigadier General John P. Willey, who had conquered Myitkyina...
What could be done, I asked the commander. He said his decision had been made by higher headquarters-he was to shift attacking forces from the railroad into the hills, try to bypass the Jap garrison, close with the enemy positions at some point nearer Hengyang high in the roadless hills. We could go with him or return. We thanked him, said we would go back and write what his men had tried...
...them a breather on Middle Eastern mainlands. A trek of hundreds of British trucks, armored cars and mechanized guns, and thousands of Indian and Arab levies set out from the Mediterranean coast for Middle Iraq, to relieve the besieged airport of Habbania. The last 400 miles was across waterless, roadless wastes...