Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the two groups there were seven miles of Axis-held terrain. It took the British, with their Imperial, Polish and Czech allies, five days to drive the enemy from the intervening territory. On the fifth day a British Tommy and a New Zealand infantryman clasped hands at El Duda...
...Winship '42, head of the group, last Spring successfully moved an injured man down Mount Mansfield. Finding a skier with a broken ankle on one of the trails, Winship had to improvise a vehicle from skis and poles. He then guided his charge laboriously through the darkness over difficult terrain to the bottom of the mountain...
...Germans do turn south, they may have an easier time getting at the oil than is generally supposed. The mountain barrier of the Caucasus is no barrier to oil. The important oil fields are north (Maikop and Grozny) and east (Baku) of the mountains, can be reached over good terrain by good communications lines. How soon Adolf Hitler reaches oil fields, and how soon he gets oil out of them, depend on the Russians and the British, who well know the importance of Middle Eastern oil to Germany's existence...
...administrative purposes the vast terrain was divided into two parts: the Ukraine and Ostland (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, White Russia). Doktor Rosenberg enraged many Ukrainian nationalists, who for years had hoped for Ukrainian independence, or a Reich Protectorate, by handing two big chunks of the Ukraine to others-Eastern Galicia to the Government of Occupied Poland, the great seaport Odessa to Rumania...
Tanks can be stopped by fast-thinking, fast-moving defense. The U.S. Army learned that vital lesson last week during a five-day sham battle over slightly rolling country, straddling the borderline between the Carolinas, on a terrain well gridded with roads-good tank country...