Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mountain Regiment (first in the U.S. Army) has four components: 1) hand-led mules with equipment (weapons of various calibers, tents, stoves, etc.); 2) mules with supplies (food and extra ammunition), traveling 52 in a herd with 16 soldiers mounted; 3) trucks, which leave the troops to bypass rough terrain; 4) men on foot...
...behind the Axis. A new camp abuilding in Colorado (elevation 9,500 ft.) will train a whole division. This is only a small start. Of possible U.S. theaters of war, nearly a fifth are mountainous: e.g., Alaska, the Canal Zone, Iceland, Malaya, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece. In such terrain, where mechanized divisions stall, the U.S. may some day have to depend on its mountain troopers and slogging, sure-footed mules...
...bend. Cutting the Volga at Astrakhan would be just as effective as servering it at Stalingrad. Between the German forces bulging east from Rostov and their river objective lie only rolling steppes, covered with slivery feather grass, ridged with few hills, marked by few towns. It is terrain eminently suitable for mechanized warfare. Part is scorching desert now, particularly as it slopes down to the salty Caspian: hard-baked land, offering scant obstacles...
...came the rumble of Jap armies massing to stab Siberia (see p. 21). Stormoviks of the Red Air Force smashed at tanks worming their way through the steppes of the Don. They splashed the skies with smoke, fighting through Messerschmitts toward airfields skulking just behind advance lines on smooth terrain. The Russians were not beaten yet, but they were bleeding from a thousand wounds...
...Attu, Kiska and Agattu, seized by the Japs. The presence of troop transports since then indicate that the Japanese have been digging in on those craggy isles astride one main sea route between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Kiska alone gave Japan a harbor, a potential submarine base, enough flat terrain for an air base within bomber range of Dutch Harbor and other Alaskan bases...