Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over. Other ports fell: Marsala and Trapani, naval bases where there was no Italian Navy and no fight on land; Termini, Imerese and Cefalú, east of Palermo on the upper coastal route to Messina and Italy. In twelve days the Seventh Army had fought for its beachheads in southwestern Sicily, fought inland past Barrafranca (see p. 34}, fought for Caltanissetta and (with the Canadians) for Enna in central Sicily. After that, the Italian Army in western Sicily simply quit fighting. Two divisions, the 206th Coastal and 4th Livorno, had shown some spirit. Others, including the 26th...
...that if you take the coasts of an island, you have the island. The air attacks on Sicily's center and its northerly ports of entry, even the ground marches toward railway and other inland centers, supported the battles for the coasts. The U.S. Seventh Army, seizing the southwestern coast, conducted a great backstopping operation, holding down and drawing off sizable enemy forces from the decisive eastern sector. To that canny soldier and conqueror, General Montgomery, fell the task of taking the eastern coast...
...Frank Garrett, light and power man, sprinted for the Southwestern Public Service building, pulled the town's master light switch, hoped people would...
These were preliminaries. Salamaua, Lae and Munda also were intermediate objectives on the road to a larger objective-Rabaul, heart & center of the Japanese naval, air and land establishment on the southwestern periphery. North of Rabaul there is only open sea (775 miles of it) between the periphery and the great naval base at Truk in the Carolines. From Rabaul the Allies also could strike behind the Japs' long Indies line, across the inner shipping lanes to Japan itself...
...importance at this stage of the war is geographical. The rugged plateau of Anatolia, insufficiently equipped though it is with roads or railways, is a bridge from the Middle East to one of Europe's softest spots, the Balkans. The islands just off Turkey's southern and southwestern coast are steppingstones for the sea road to an attack on Greece. And in the Middle East, across the bridge and beyond the steppingstones. Allied armies are growing...