Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history sets us a great example. One hundred and thirty years ago, when German troops still stood on Russian soil as enemies, it was precisely from Russia that the finest sons of the Germans-Stein, Arndt, Clausewitz, Yorck and others-appealed to the conscience of the German people over the heads of their traitors, the German rulers, and called upon them to wage a liberation...
...Star jubilantly announced that improved types of YAKs, LAGGs and Stormoviks had been put into action. To Russia's common man this was no run-of-the-mill war item; it was the first solid proof that the aircraft factories transplanted to the rocky Ural soil had grown to maturity...
...point is to win. They know more about Axis military and industrial strength than they do about secretive Russia's. They cannot get the use of Russian air bases for bombing raids like the one on the Ploesti oilfield-which could have been made from Russian soil with a shorter flight and heavier bomb loads...
...Germans were beaten in the Sicilian skies as decisively as they were beaten on the island's soil. Said Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, commander of the Northwest African Tactical Air Force: "[The Luftwaffe] has been knocked out of the skies so far as we are concerned." How completely the Allies dominated the seas was shown last week when a British task force steamed up to the Gulf of Naples, shelled naval installations there and returned without a scratch...
Died. Dr. Gerard de Geer, 84, University of Stockholm's famed geochronologist; in Stockholm. By measurements of soil cross-sections, Baron de Geer established a climatic calendar that reached back 16,000 years...