Word: seaport
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...were the Japanese more successful in the land fighting. While rain turned the ground into watery, reddish mud, and stalled virtually all transportation but weasels (tracked jeeps), U.S. troops wormed gradually around the Japanese defense line in the south. In the east infantrymen captured the seaport village of Yonabaru and swept on in a flanking drive. The Japs withdrew hastily, for the first time abandoning large supply dumps intact. On the west marines secured Sugar Loaf and Half Moon Hills, at week's end held half of Naha...
Behind these armored needles lacing up the German shroud, the Allies tidied and mopped up. Regensburg, the Ratisbon where Napoleon won a battle and a wound in the heel; Augsburg, 95 miles from the Brenner Pass; Bremen in the north, Germany's second largest seaport, all fell within the week...
...despite claims of damage inflicted on U.S. carriers by Jap aircraft, the task force remained in the area, and a repeat performance was given the following day, with the emphasis on the seaport of Kobe and the naval base of Kure...
Sophie is a rather fetching actress of lusty temperament whose soldier husband has been reported missing in action. When she announces to the press new matrimonial intentions on the very day that Jim, husband number one, shows up at a nearby seaport, an embarrassing situation rears its provocative head. From the simple idea of what each member of the family imagines he will say to the returning hero, Barry has fashioned a series of artful dream sequences which pack a comic punch and no little satire...
Bawdy, overcivilized Marseilles, a seaport that must be also won, was already outflanked; Allied troops were less than nine miles away. The naval base at Toulon, with the tragic wreck of the French fleet rusting in its harbor, was under attack. Avignon, home of the Popes for 76 years, would soon feel the hot breath of war. Aix, heart of Provence, oldest Roman town in Gaul, was directly in the path of the pelting Allied army. The fourth front in Europe was proceeding not according to plan, but better...