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...Westward from Hawaii lie the islands which the Japanese had 30 years to prepare for defense: Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Majuro and Palau. Those glittering prizes of yesteryear have their garrisons, their installations and their functions, but they are no longer in the forefront of the new Pacific...
That rush of westward traffic was peanuts to what the roads will be handling late this summer, when the heat will really be on. By August the transports shuttling across the Atlantic will be landing 350,000 men a month into sleepers and coaches for a fast trip to regrouping centers. Local traffic will spurt as the groups are furloughed home, then return to camp for regrouping...
...their columns moved westward from the Paoking area, northward from Chengpu, the usual ragged Chinese armies were suddenly stiffened by U.S.-equipped units, tough and battlewise. The Japs, who had set out on a mere punitive expedition, found themselves fighting a hard, draining battle...
...week Torgau was almost deserted. Marshal Konev's artillery had battered it from across the Elbe. Only a few Germans, too numb to care what happened, searched rubbish piles for scraps of food and hunted cigaret butts among the cobblestones. The rest had joined a panicky throng swarming westward toward the U.S. lines...
...Italy and Yugoslavia. Even before Moscow's 324-gun salute boomed the Vienna victory, the Russians were off toward more decisive prizes. This week Red columns stood only 30 miles from Brünn, one of the shrinking Reich's last armaments centers. Other columns had turned westward along the Danube and toward Linz. There the Russians would be in position to seal off the eastern side of the Nazis' Alpine redoubt...