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...subs worked close to shore. Off the southeastern coast, a U-boat slipped in shore and sank two barges and a tug with gunfire. She stood so close by that the barge crews could hear the commands of the officers on her deck...
Spring came to southeastern Europe last week. Adolf Hitler could have put a canoe into a tiny stream in the Black Forest and followed the last chunks of ice down a Danube swollen by the 300 tributaries which interlace his new domain. The sights would be gruesome or inspiring, depending on where he stopped...
Fourth largest of the world's islands, Madagascar is 241,094 square miles in area. It lies only 240 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, athwart the United Nations' sea lane around the Cape of Good Hope to the Persian Gulf, to India and Australia. If Japan had Madagascar, the Axis would threaten the whole Indian Ocean. Madagascar is 3,800 miles from Java and 7,200 from Tokyo-not as far as Australia is from...
...southeastern pipelines are also helping -one from Port St. Joe, Fla. 456 miles to Chattanooga; another from Baton Rouge, La. 1,270 miles to Greensboro...
Setbacks on two fronts jolted the Axis Sunday--in Russia, where Red Army shock troops stormed westward through crumbling German lines toward the old Polish frontier, and in the southeastern Mediterranean zone, where British forces struck heavily by land...