Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Flame. Their artillerymen learned to "walk" shells toward distant objectives. Their fire was so accurate that Jap prisoners thought U.S. troops had installed listening posts deep in the jungles to tip off Japanese movements...
...Cherbourg - major port on the tip of Cotentin (or Norman) peninsula sticking north like a thumb toward Britain, 80 miles across the Channel. It is heavily fortified and protected by the German-held Channel Islands. Beaches on both sides of the peninsula are limited by high cliffs...
...greatest concentration of naval power he had ever had, had given the U.S. new airfields 500 miles closer to the enemy's inner positions. From the three big airdromes at Hollandia (on which U.S. engineers worked this week), U.S. long-range bombers can now reach the southern tip of the Philippines (although with minimum loads), can also bite heavily into the Jap chain from the onetime Dutch naval base at Amboina, up through the Pacific arc to Guam...
This week, with a fine collection of staging points for troops, harbors for naval craft and fields for aircraft strung along New Guinea's coast, MacArthur set his bombers at pounding westward, beyond the big island's tip, at the Jap base at Timor. Like other air assaults all the way north to the Kurils, it was only a succession of tentative jabs. But the jabs would be followed, somewhere along the Japs' defensive arc, by a heavy blow. The Pacific was being set for another great assault...
Allied flyers (American pilots outnumbered the British 2-to-1) caught the Japanese with their kimonos up, peppered the island port of Sabang just off Sumatra's northern tip, salted down Lho Nga airfield on Sumatra proper. Japanese installations were torn, five small ships burned, 25 airplanes wrecked...