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...field. Promptly at 8:15, having breakfasted on Lend-Lease powdered eggs, he stepped out of the officers' mess and into a waiting Cadillac. Sergeant Alex Stout, a black-haired young man who used to jeep the General around Sicily, sent the long black car purring southward...
Landing. The surprise achieved by MacArthur was complete. The large force had feinted toward Palau, then reversed itself at night to steam southward into Hollandia. Other feints had been made toward Madang and Wewak, Jap-held bases in Australian New Guinea, where enemy forces had been concentrated, perhaps in expectation of the attack...
From the Sea of Okhotsk fog and rain creep southward to shroud a long, splintery island hugging Russia's coast. The island is Sakhalin, stern, unfriendly, peopled with grandsons of the criminals Czarist police sent there to rot and die in chains...
Here, as at the northern passes, opportunity also knocks, for the Germans have as yet had little time to organize. If the Russians drive southward along the eastern wall of the Carpathians, the Ploesti oilfields, one-third of Hitler's oil supply, can be taken, Bucharest and the German frontage on the Black Sea could be liquidated. If the drive continued successfully the Russians could fight their way west, where the Carpathians curve back, to reach the easiest of the Carpathian passes, facing north from the valley of the muddy Danube...
Cleaning Up. This week, after several days of inactivity (probably waiting for supplies to catch up), Marshal Konev's Central Ukrainian Army pushed across the Prut River and resumed its southward and westward march, narrowing the Nazi escape corridor from the Ukraine and at the same time mopping up Bessarabia and penetrating Rumania proper...