Word: seaport
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...from both west and east by Army bombers in a foretaste of what was to come as new bases, now taken, were built up. For the first time since General MacArthur was evacuated from Mindanao to Australia, U.S. heavy bombers flew over the southern Philippines in force. Davao, principal seaport and military base of the southern Philippines, was attacked for three nights running and on odd nights thereafter by Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Liberators...
...battle for Cherbourg opened on a clear, cool, summery day. U.S. troops had chased the beaten Nazi divisions up the peninsula, driven wedges to the sea on both sides of the seaport. There was no escape except by sea-and the Allies controlled...
...could be maintained only by prodigious effort and a bigger fleet of transports than China has yet seen. Even if Burma is reopened, the Burma Road's previous top capacity of 15,000 tons a month would hardly wet the bucket. That is why Chennault dreams of a seaport near his operational bases...
...main British objective was to retake Akyab, the small seaport on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. It failed for several reasons...
This was the second African stronghold one of our TIME & LIFE News Bureau men stumbled into ahead of the Army. Two years ago (eight months before Pearl Harbor) George Rodger strolled out the causeway to Massaua, the last seaport held by the Italians in Eritrea, was escorted to the Italian general's headquarters, found to his amazement that the Italians were still looking for someone to surrender to. He had dinner that night with the Italian commander, was on the friendliest of terms with the vanquished before the surrender ceremonies next...