Word: sunkenness
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...protect her African keystone, France strongly fortified the hills around Bizerte harbor. But the Allied forces are approaching Bizerte, fortified for a sea attack, by a backdoor land route. To face Italian aggression from Libya, France built the Mareth ("Little Maginot") Line of pillboxes and sunken cement forts in the hills at the eastern border. In hostile hands these fortifications would not be an impossible obstacle to the Allies. The Germans and Italians dismantled many of the fortifications after the French armistice in 1940; and the guns on the Mareth Line are set to point east...
...cries of "Don't bother, we'll get it for you" from the soldiers on the bank, four Australian soldiers aboard the raft slowly gathered up possessions that only a soldier can truly treasure-firearms, rain capes, a few battered odds & ends. As they turned their sunken eyes shoreward, the shouting and chatter of the spectators ceased. The crowd parted. In dead silence the four bearded Australians crunched up the bank, walked to a waiting field truck...
...with every tick of the clock, hundreds of people are dying. Everywhere, as we talk, men are maiming, mutilating, burning each other and blasting each other into all eternity. Women are being buried with their babies in their arms under the ruins of their bombed homes. Whole peoples grow sunken-eyed, bare-boned, rickety-easy preys to pestilence, after famine. And with every breath we take in, some starved child breathes out its last...
...opening of better weather for submarines. But possibly neither of these things was so important last week as the launching of a vessel which, when completed, will be the only United Nations battleship afloat able, without giving odds, to take on the powerful Nazi Tirpitz, sister of the sunken Bismarck...
...thorough job of destruction when they scuttled or burned or smashed everything useful in Massaua harbor. Massaua, in Eritrea, had once been one of Mussolini's biggest naval bases outside of Italy. When the victorious British arrived its waterfront shops were in ruins, its waters choked with sunken ships...