Word: seacoasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constant pressure against the 40-mile front had had its effect. Rommel in alarm had begun to withdraw his stores and supplies. To counter what seemed to be the greatest threat, at the end of his line which was anchored to the seacoast, he had swung the 21st Panzer Division north. That was when the inexorable Montgomery struck...
...with feints towards the north, then a jab at the southern front. With his entire Afrika Korps of four divisions-tank columns and light infantry-he swept along the edge of the Qattara Depression, struck at the British lines, penetrated some distance into British mine fields, swung toward the seacoast. This was Rommel's Sturm, Schwung, Wucht.* The operation was reminiscent of the wide sweep he had made around Bir Hachéim in May. But Alexander and Montgomery were ready for him. They had learned some lessons about desert warfare...
...conquest of New Guinea is becoming increasingly difficult. Ever since he landed at Buna on the north shore July 22, he has been trying to get at Port Moresby. His land forces have worn themselves out on New Guinea's sharp-humped backbone. Now a sweep around the seacoast had been wrecked...
...Near the seacoast, they evacuated Wenchow. Before the Japs wrested the city from the Chinese more than a month ago, it was one of the only two sizable seaports left to China and, according to Domei, "an important secret Chinese supply base." Over its 10th-Century wall flowed smuggled Japanese goods for Free China, Chinese raw materials for Japan. More vexing to Japan's military leaders, it was only 180 miles from the northern tip of the island of Formosa, a vital troop center and training ground, and 650 miles (feasible bombing distance) from Japan. These were the reasons...
...York, were rushed to the fever-ridden little country on the Red Sea. To escape the heat of the lowlands, where the temperature sometimes reaches 120°, they were housed 4,000 feet above sea level on the inland plateau and transported every day to the sweltering seacoast...