Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from northern Britain to Iceland to Greenland), but to make use of it he would have to come by sea and establish a base there. To drive him out by a land attack might prove nearly as difficult as driving the Germans out of Norway for much of the terrain is almost equally barren and difficult. And from a base in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland he could harry the U. S. coast by sea and set about the steady business of softening up the U. S. and Canada by air raids on their industrial plants, hydroelectric stations (the chief...
Chungking ought to be the world's safest city in wartime. It is surrounded by terrain so rugged that it would be almost impossible to assault it by land. It is embraced by two treacherous rivers, whose water level has been known to change as much as 40 feet in one night. Eight months in the year it is roofed with dense fog. Built on a rock 750 feet high, it is honeycombed with deep, bombproof caverns, with room for 200,000. But the Chinese never learn. They still think standing under trees makes them safe from bombs. They...
...Methods. In recent years General Gamelin had walked attentively, at the brisk half-trot he learned in the Chasseurs, over almost every square mile of the terrain to which Germany now brought the war. He knew minutely its potentialities for defense by war of position-the prevailing school of French Army thought ever since the Maginot Line was conceived and erected. At the war's outset he announced that he would be miserly in spending human life. His stand-and-take-it order meant that the Germans had forced him out of position and into a war of maneuver...
...Swedish manufacturer exposed a German plan to get detailed drawings of Swedish factories by having manufacturers send them to a German air-raid expert for advice on how to build shelters. German "tourists" swarmed over Sweden, especially around the mining districts. Six "philosophy students" were arrested studying the terrain around the fortress at Boden, strongest in northern Europe. Two German agents were nabbed for espionage at Eskilstuna ("Sheffield of Sweden"), another at the gold-mining town of Boliden. A German journalist and photographer named Viese was found to have supplied a Berlin picture agency with 60 detailed photographs of Swedish...
...Nazi cruiser Emden. Queries from Reykjavik as to why the Emden constantly hung about near Iceland's capital drew from Berlin polite assurances that this was a gesture of "honor and respect." Earlier, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring had the whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations for a coup in Iceland were believed almost complete when Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler announced that in March...