Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rain of Death. The two forces collided on the morning of Sept. 3, southwest of Mons. Fighter planes operating with the advance armor early discovered nearly 1500 enemy vehicles heading eastward toward the American lines, and immediately attacked them. Jammed on the roads in double and triple columns, the Germans still pressed eastward, for to them that was the way to safety and Germany...
Since capturing Hengyang (TIME, Aug. 28), the Japanese drive, spearheaded by five divisions with as many more in support, has advanced southwest at the rate of ten miles a day. It cut right through the Chinese army that opposed them-the Chinese, with no ammunition left, had to get away as best they could. The Japs overran Lingling, a Fourteenth Air Force field. At that rate of advance, ten days more would put them in Kweilin, site of a major U.S. air base and capital of Kwangsi Province...
...rice paddies, just harvested of their bumper crop. At Hengyang the Japanese had won the battle of Hunan. There they had paused for regrouping, to consolidate their supply lines and to rest their troops. Twice in a month they had feinted, first due south toward Canton, next southwest toward Kweilin, site of a major Fourteenth Air Force base. Both times they had halted, not yet certain they had the preponderant strength needed to finish...
...Washington lawyer and authority on veterans' legislation before she joined. Her stern hairdo belies 42-year-old Brown's lighter side. She can do Mexican folk dances and sing Mexican love songs in a fair soprano. Stationed in Australia, she is staff director in the Southwest Pacific area...
Major Richard Ira Bong, who shot down 27 Jap planes in the Southwest Pacific, passed through Salt Lake City on a commercial airliner, complained that he could not sleep. Reason: he was airsick...