Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illusion that Britain and the U.S. could husband their might until 1943 or 1944, then win the war by retrieving what Germany and Japan had taken in the meantime. As Germany coiled for a spring offensive somewhere in Russia (see p. 24), as the Japanese locked the southwest Pacific (see p. 21), the United Nations absorbed the fact that their war can be lost...
...outlying Indies islands, they might have to wage a long and tough guerrilla campaign against unsubjected Dutchmen and hardy natives. But for all the purposes of war and conquest, the Japanese had Java. They had the Indies, their oil and rubber and tin, their "strategic island wall across the southwest Pacific. They had still to fight the battle of India and the battle of Australia. But they had won the battle of the Pacific...
...decisive sea battles of history was fought last week in the placid waters between Java and Borneo. It was the naval battle for Java. It was a battle for the last bulwark against Japanese conquest of the Indies, a battle for the Southwest Pacific, a battle for a great chunk of the world's seas and sea power. It was a battle fought too late and in the wrong place, lost before it began...
West of the U.S. naval base at St. John's, Newfoundland, a long spit of land juts southwest toward the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Lieut. Commander Ralph Hickox, skipper of the elderly flush-deck destroyer Truxtun, knew he was somewhere near the end of the spit, but he could not see. The wind was blowing more than 60 miles an hour and low-flying scud dropped the visibility toward zero. The Truxtun ran aground. So did the naval supply ship Pollux. The waves, pounding in like sledgehammers to the base of a 200-ft. cliff, began...
Seventy-five miles southwest of Moscow, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Walter Kerr talked with several guerrilla leaders. They told him that partisan warfare is literally to the death: the partisans take no prisoners, expect death themselves if captured. So impressed are the Germans that rewards of 10,000 rubles (about $1,900) are paid for captured guerrilla leaders, 5,000 each for their followers. Wrote Walter Kerr...