Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving the same trail of dead Nazis and sabot age which has been the subject of pictures since. Hitler invaded Austria, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and company tear and blast their way across Germany to the Dutch frontier with blood, sweat, and doubletalk. They are captured innumerable times by the Gestapo, but since, as everybody knows, the Germans don't eat Wheaties, the picture ends with their inevitable escape to England in a captured bomber...
...Gaullists were not yet happy. All of the people's questions hadn't been answered. The President had cleared away the underbrush of confusion. But he had not clearly and unmistakably pointed out the direction of the trail to be cut into the future...
...clawed and jerked his own bulldozer. The highway crews at last had met-20 miles east of the Alaska-Yukon border. The Negro and the Texan leaped from their machines and shook hands. The seven-month job was almost done. Then they backed their bulldozers and began widening the trail they had opened...
Behind the fleeing Germans and Italians was a littered trail: ledgers, military manuals, permits for furloughs, letters from home; tins of Danish hams, Norwegian herring, Dutch sausages, French wines, Munich beer; trumpets, tubas, drums (to be used in Rommel's triumphal procession into Alexandria) ; women's underwear, silk stockings, cosmetics; brandy and champagne; arms, cannon, machinery, tanks; trucks trapped by sudden rains that had turned the marshlands around Buqbuq into seas of mud. Beside the coast road lay the German dead, grey faces hidden by the peaked caps of the Afrika Korps. Beside them lay their Italian allies...
...Land. Meanwhile Australian troops, battle-toughened in Libya and the Middle East, were rushed to New Guinea and hastened up the trail to stop the Japs. Over the jungle and mountain trail that leads out of Moresby they slogged through mud a foot deep, through rain that never ceased. The Japs, weakened by dysentery and undernourishment, withdrew as fast as they had advanced. The Australians pushed on toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range. They started down the slope toward Buna, where the Japs landed last July. Last week they took Kokoda, a thatched native village...