Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA--American forces fanning out in two columns from the scene of their triumph at Kasserine pass have swept 23 miles to the east, capturing Sheitla, and a like distance southwest to the area of Feriani, it was disclosed tonight...
Both points were taken yesterday after they had been in Axis possession less than 24 hours and a threat that the southwest sector of the British line at Bou Arada would be isolated was removed at least for the moment. Bon Arada is 20 miles south of Medjez-El-Bab. Fort McGregor and Tally-Ho Corner, a road junction, lies in between...
...jeep to inspect the Allied positions at Sidi bou Zid, a few miles west of Faïd Pass. The U.S. soldiers had just moved in to relieve French troops. The whole situation was precarious. Eisenhower had been maintaining this mountainous front-from Pichon to Faïd Pass southwest to Gafsa-largely by bluff...
...young U.S. poets who add new chapters to the modernist testimony are Karl Jay Shapiro, 29, and Randall Jarrell, 28. Shapiro, drafted into the army in 1941, is on duty as a sergeant somewhere in the southwest Pacific. Baltimore-born, poverty-wise, he is a Jew who has lived outside the pale in a democracy that often proudly kids itself that it erects no pales. At the University of Virginia, which he attended only long enough to leave in disgust, he decided that
...week's end the war became predominantly a war in the air. U.S. bombers ranged the whole South Pacific area, unloosed one of the greatest mass raids yet on Rabaul, Japan's biggest base in the southwest Pacific...