Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blitz. After the lightninglike operations of the week before,* many wondered at the deliberate pace last week. One explanation was that the element of surprise was gone. The First Army was moving perforce from bases set up on an alien shore, lugging equipment to fight an enemy in positions which the Germans had time to prepare...
...Casablanca U.S. naval planes dive-bombed harbor and shore positions, fought French aircraft. R.A.F. fighters and bombers paced Britain's First Army and its supporting U.S. troops into Tunisia. This week both U.S. and British flyers plumped paratroops on Tunisian airports, bombed and strafed German strong points...
Oran and Mers-el-Kebir, the nearby naval base where the British attacked parts of the French Fleet in 1940, were also flanked. The main landings were at Arzew, on a promontory 25 miles northeast of Oran. On the narrow, easily accessible shore between the hills and the sea, other forces seized Bou Sfer and Cap Signale, west of the city. Then they drove for: 1) Oran's four airdromes, 2) the parallel railway and highway coursing down the coastal plain. By land, on the flanks and in the rear of the historic city, the encirclement was swift...
Rabat, on the Atlantic coast 475 miles from Oran, was an incidental objective in a general assault upon Morocco. Landings were made north of the city at coastal Mehdia, to the south on the narrow shore of Fedhala and Bouznika; then immediate marches upon Rabat's own airdrome, which was quickly evacuated by the Vichy -french, and on another at Salé, eight miles northeast of the capital...
Slowly and at great cost, the Germans have advanced in the central and eastern Caucasus to within 150 miles of Makhach-Kala on the Caspian, where the best shore route to Baku begins. They have the Malgobek oilfield near Mozdok, but they do not have the Grozny fields, although the Russians last week admitted that in that sector they were still retiring. The Germans also advanced past Nalchik toward Ordzhonikidze...