Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow was 3 to 5 ft. deep, and the drifts were deeper. Even on snowshoes, it was an arduous climb. But the three provost officers (military policemen) found what they wanted-a cabin, well up on Mt. McKay, overlooking Lake Superior, some 16 miles southwest of Fort William, Ont. The cabin, screened by a stand of pine and spruce, was obviously new, built of rough-hewn logs. Sergeant Ronald "Slim" Harrison approached cautiously, threw open the door...
With the securing of the Philippines, MacArthur would come to the geographical limits of his present command. As CINCSoWesPAC (Commander in Chief, Southwest Pacific), he now has nothing to say about operations which might take Allied forces to China, Formosa, the Bonins, Ryukyus, Kurils or Japan itself...
Married. Major General Ralph Royce, 54, muscular ex-commander of the U.S.French First Tactical Air Force in France, onetime Chief of Staff for Air, Southwest Pacific, who led the first aerial squadron in France in 1917, the first Australia-based bombing of Japs on Luzon in 1942; and Agnes Berges, 36, ex-Manhattan hotel executive and overseas Red Cross worker; he for the second time, she for the first; in Detroit...
...than the attaining of a great objective: it was a high-water mark in the inexorable rising tide of the American war effort. No one doubted that there would be hard fighting aplenty before the Philippines were entirely redeemed; but Manila was the crown and symbol of the entire Southwest Pacific campaign. The war that had begun in defeat and humiliation had yielded a great victory: clear-cut, renowned-and semifinal...
Shortening the Line. But Russian power would not be denied. By this week the Red Armies had accomplished what no Junker could have believed possible. Rokossovsky, striking swiftly, enveloped the Germans with the bear's left arm. It reached the Baltic 43 miles southwest of Königsberg, enfolded Elbing, created a pocket 85 miles deep. The Russians had done another impossible: they had broken through the "impregnable" German defenses in the Masurian Lakes area, had narrowed the pocket to an average width of 40 miles. Inside was what remained of a Wehrmacht force of some...