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...coastal strip ten miles deep and running all the way from The Wash, on the east coast, around to Land's End, westernmost tip of England, was closed to civilian visitors; even the local residents were forbidden to have binoculars...
Before the Allies now lay parallel valleys. Entrenched on the mountains commanding these valleys were the Germans, still in excellent positions to delay the Allied advance. Through the westernmost valley, before General Clark's Fifth Army, wound the Via Appia, most famous of all roads to Rome. Before the Eighth can think of Rome, it must hack up the Adriatic coast to Pescara...
...China. As he spoke, Chiang could look back on a year of compensations for hard going. Sinkiang, China's westernmost province, had crept back into the fold after ten years' illicit living with its Russian neighbor. The war had gone well enough so that many could speak of an end before the next Double Ten. There had been no important clashes with the Chinese Communists, and there was a promise on the record to call a People's Congress and adopt a democratic constitution within a year after...
Beyond the Outpost. As has been true on every other Pacific front, the Japs were cool fighters. But with Attu firmly in the U.S. grasp, Kiska gravely threatened and the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri only 750 miles beyond the westernmost U.S. outpost, signs of nervousness began to appear in Tokyo. Blustered the Jap, in an official broadcast: "If in the future Russia ever puts her Siberian bases at the disposal of the U.S., the Japanese Army will resort to a blitzkrieg that will deal upon her the heaviest blows Russia has ever known...
...opposing warcraft dueled at long range west of Attu Island, westernmost of the Aleutians and itself some 210 miles west of the Jap base at Kiska--which has been under steady American aerial pounding during the past month...