Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Equally definite decisions have been made in the Pacific. General MacArthur clearly eliminated his southwestern theater as one of the chosen areas. That left two-Burma-Malaya, and the Central Pacific...
From the South, for example, we have graduates of Tulane, Southwestern, Southern Methodist, Louisiana State, Charleston, Centre, Baylor-the Universities of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee...
...press release from the Army this week credited two second lieutenants with sinking "a large Italian transport of the 50,000-ton Conte di Savoia class." The U.S. pilots, flying A36 fighter bombers (converted P-51s), spotted a big ship anchored off a quay at Bagnara Calabra in the southwestern part of Italy. They bombed it, registering two hits and a near miss. Pilots who flew over next" day confirmed the sinking...
Half a million men surged all week over rainswept fields around Orel. This week the Berlin radio spoke guardedly of fighting "in the southwestern part of the town." If true, this meant the Russians were finally forcing them to abandon their easternmost strong point in the central front. To their own people, the Germans glibly explained the dogged Russian advance in terms of the Wehrmacht's policy of "elastic defense...
...first five days of invasion, the U.S. Seventh Army seized and widened its bridgeheads in southwestern Sicily (TIME, July 26). On the night of July 15-16, the Seventh Army then began the northward push which culminated last week in the occupation of central and western Sicily...