Word: southward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then Airman-Infantryman Saunders became Seaman Saunders. He scrounged a sampan and sailed the Rangoon River southward. Soon he met British soldiers and passed the word. Then Rangoon was more fully and formally captured...
...enemy remained in Burma, but many of them were cut off by the sea to the west, their escape routes to Thailand sealed. If the almost bloodless taking of Rangoon was an anticlimax to the bloody battles that had been fought for Mandalay and the roads southward, the strategic results were even more satisfactory than had been hoped...
...learned to fly in World War I, then had been denied overseas service. At the start of World War II, commanding in Alaska, he was sitting in a strategic hot spot, seemingly destined for speedy, decisive action; but the war, lightly singeing his area, had swirled southward, leaving him in the quiet northern shadows...
...merely that they were bewildered is to gild the lily of understatement. Where was the withering machine-gun fire? Where were the murderous 320-mm. mortars, the gin. rockets? Where were the fanatic Japs? They were not defending the west coast of Okinawa from north of Kadena southward half way to Naha...
Nervously they looked southward, where Zhukov was reported to have 1,200,000 men massed, waiting for the flooded Oder to return to its. banks. Northward the Red Marshal's columns smashed their way into Altdamm, the last German position on the right bank of the Oder...