Word: terraine
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...bruising fight against terrain as well as pillboxes, snipers' nests, mined roads, concealed mortars' and artillery. The Apennine spine of Italy scatters rough, irregular ribs in all directions. Rain-flooded rivers gouge the land. Perched on heights above the valley-bottom roads, the Germans could give ground slowly and at a stiff price. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army pried them from Mondragone, the western anchor of their line. General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth bit sharply toward Isernia, key to the enemy's center, and Vasto, his east coast anchor...
...Italian campaign? Going quite well, though differently and more slowly than expected. The German was tough, the terrain tougher. "All roads lead to Rome. I won't argue that. But unfortunately all the roads are mined...
...Chief, Mark Clark had military jurisdiction over 225,000 sq. mi. of North African soil. He established headquarters in the vacated Ècole des Jeunes Filles at Oujda, in French Morocco, a town of 35,000 (less than half of whom are Europeans). Around Jay a sparsely-settled, varied terrain-mountain, desert, plain and seacoast-an excellent practice ground...
...would help develop the field. It would also build a pipeline of some 500 miles for the crude to a U.S. refinery at Whitehorse, plus gasoline lines to Skagway (on tidewater), Fairbanks, and the airfield at Watson Lake. In all. some 1,600 miles of pipeline, over the toughest terrain imaginable, plus an oilfield as industrially remote as Africa...
...blow, not at Burma, but at the Malay Peninsula. It was conceivable that last week's threats were a nerve war. Lord Louis, still in London a fortnight ago, could not prepare a major campaign with a twist of his wrist. An invasion of the thick, mountainous jungle terrain of Burma called for a major effort, as the British had already found...