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...Inner Waters. If the U.S. target for the next invasion was the Philippines, there was still one major area in which the Japs first had to be beaten groggy. That was the island chain stretching south from the homeland through the Ryukyus and Formosa to Luzon, and the sheltered waterway lying behind the islands through the East and South China Seas...
Intact were the Cascades at Caserta, a famed waterway lined with baroque sculpture; the Castel del Monte, near Bari (depository for all the art treasures of the Bari area); the 12th-Century cathedral at Bari...
...black iron and concrete of the walk. Thus this week one of the world's most strategic locks was formally opened to deep-laden, deep-tooting ore boats. The lock, named for General Douglas MacArthur, is the newest on the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, the most vital waterway in the U.S. Through the Soo passes 80% of the iron ore (mainly from Minnesota's Mesabe range) that U.S. steel mills feed into the U.S. war machine...
...Dakar? Allied seizure of Dakar alone would be mainly a defensive measure, depriving the Germans of a position from which they could attack the Allies' trans-African routes and the Atlantic waterway feeding those routes. But Allied action, once begun, need not stop at Dakar. A really effective African offensive might include simultaneous or successive moves against Casablanca and other key points on the long French African coast between Dakar and the Mediterranean. Every move up that coast would be a move to: 1) cut off Rommel's forces in their rear; 2) bar the Germans...
...Madagascar to the Libyan Desert a single battle is being fought: the battle to keep Africa open as the supply crossroads of the United Nations. Rommel's dusty warriors menaced the land bridge between Africa and the Middle East. Vichy intrigue and Japanese submarines at Madagascar menaced the waterway up the African coast toward Eritrea, Suez. Persia and Russia...